1 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



June 16th, 1859. 

 Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Edward Bradford, Esq. ; the Venerable Archdeacon Hale ; 

 M. H. Lackersteen, Esq., M.D. ; J. T. Llewelyn, Esq. ; Dr. Q-eorge 

 Eolleston ; and David Williams, Esq., were elected Eellows. 



The special thanks of the Society were ordered to be given to 

 the President for his present of a valuable series of physiological 

 works, not previously in the Society's Library. 



Read, first, a " Revised Synopsis of the Distomidce ; " by T. 

 Spencer Cobbold, Esq., M.D., F.L.S. (See " Zoological Proceed- 

 ings," vol. iv. p. .) 



Eead, secondly, a Memoir " On the structure of the Pitcher in 

 the genus Nepenthes ; with the description of several new species 

 from Borneo;" by Joseph Hooker, Esq., M.D., E.R.S., E.L.S. 

 (See " Transactions," vol. xxii. p. .) 



Eead, thirdly, a " Synopsis of the Indian species of Impatiens ; " 

 by J. D. Hooker, Esq., M.D., E.R.S., F.L.S. (See "Botanical 

 Proceedings," vol. iv. p. .) 



Eead, fourthly, a " Description of a New Genus of Balanopho- 

 recd;^^ by Dr. Hooker. (See " Transactions," vol. xxii. p. .) 



Eead, fifthly, a " Description of the genus Fropiera of Bouton ;" 

 by Dr. Hooker. (See " Botanical Proceedings," vol. iv. p. .) 



Eead, sixthly, Notes " On Leopoldinia Piassaha, "Wallace ; " by 

 Eichard Spruce, Esq. Communicated by Greorge Bentham, Esq., 

 V.P.L.S. (See " Botanical Proceedings," vol. iv. p. 58.) 



Eead, seventhly, a Notice " On the cultivation of the Cocoa-nut 

 in Ceylon; " by the Eev. Thomas Foulkes, in a letter to Sir W. 

 J. Hooker, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



Eead, eighthly, a Memoir " On the Embryogeny of Endogens ; " 

 by Benjamin Clarke, Esq., F.L.S. (See " Transactions," vol. xxii. 



p. •)■ 



Eead, ninthly, " Miscellaneous Notes on Various Plants ; " by 

 Benjamin Clarke, Esq., F.L.S. (See " Transactions," vol. xxii. 



p. .) 



Eead, tenthly, a " Memoir " On East Indian Salices ; " by Prof. 

 N. J. Andersson. Communicated by Joseph Hooker, Esq., M.D., 

 F.E.S., F.L.S. See " Botanical Proceedings," vol. iv. p. 39.) 



