VI ' PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Eead, first, a Memoir "On Vegetable Affinities;" by T. C. 

 Hilgard, M.D. Communicated by Bertboid Seemann, Ph.D., 

 F.L.S, 



Read, secondly, a " Note on Monstrosities of Baucus Carota, L., 

 and Trifoliumi pratense, L. ;" by Maxwell T. Masters, Esq. Com- 

 municated by the Secretary, 



Bead, thirdly, " Descriptions of new species of Mmci from 

 New Zealand and other parts of the Southern Hemisphere; " by 

 William Mitten, Esq., A.L.S. (See " Botanical Proceedings," 

 vol. iv. p. 64.) 



April 7th, 1859. 



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



Edward Sheppard, Esq., was elected a Pellow. 



The Secretary read the following letter addressed to him by 

 Dr. Boott, Treasurer and V.P.L.S., accompanying the donation of 

 a Miniature of the elder Hedwig, for which the special thanks of 

 the Society were ordered ; — 



" Mt dear Bennett, — I send the ring containing the little 

 miniature of Hedwig for the Linnean Society. You will see the 

 name on the back in the hand- writing of Sir James E. Smith ; and 

 on referring to th6 second volume of his ' Memoirs,' p. 98, you 

 will find a letter from the younger Hedwig, which accompanied 

 the gift of the ring to Sir James, and at p. 107 Sir James's ac- 

 knowledgment of both. The ring was given to me by Lady Smith 

 in 1857, and I feel that it cannot but be acceptable to the Society, 

 as a memorial of one of the most distinguished of its Foreign 

 Members. 



" Yours affectionately, 



"E. Boott." 



" J. J. Bennett, Usq., F.B.S., Sec. Limi, Soc:' 



The special thanks of the Society were likewise directed to be 

 given to Mr. Bennett for his Donation of an extensive series of 

 botanical works selected from the library of the late Robert Brown, 

 D.C.L., V.P.L.S. 



