Vlll PIIOCEEDINGS or THE 



May 5th, 1859. 



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



Henry Munroe, Esq., M.D., and Charles Prentis, Esq., were 

 elected Eellows ; and Professor J, F. Brandt, Professor A. H. E. 

 G-risebach, Professor J. L. Loven, and Mons. H. A. "Weddell, were 

 elected Foreign Members. 



Read, first, " Further Observations on the New Organ in the 

 Antennae of Insects ; " by John Braxted Hicks, Esq , M.D., F.L.S. 

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



Read, secondly, a " Synopsis of the Greuera Thea and Camellia ; " 

 by Berthold Seemann, Esq., Ph.D., F.L.S. (See " Transactions," 

 vol. xxii. p. 337.) 



Read, thirdly, a " Synopsis of the Fructification of the Simple 

 Sphcerice of the Hookerian Herbarium;" by Frederick Currey, 

 Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S. (See " Transactions," vol. xxii. p. 313.) 



Read, fourthly, a second Letter from M. Emile Bourgeau, ad- 

 dressed to Sir W. J. Hooker, F.R.S., F.L.S. (See "Botanical 

 Proceedings," vol. iv. p. 13.) 



May 24th, 1859. 



Anniversart/ Meeting. 



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



This day, the Anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus, and the day 

 appointed by the Charter for the Election of Council and Officers, 

 the President opened the business of the Meeting with the fol- 

 lowing Address : — 



Gentlemen, 



The year which has passed since I last had the pleasure of meeting 

 you on our Anniversary, has not been unproductive in contribu- 

 tions of interest and value, in those sciences to which we are 

 professedly more particularly addicted, as well as in every other 

 walk of scientific research. It has not, indeed, been marked by 

 any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize, so to 

 speak, the department of science on which they bear ; it is only at 



