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of Professor Don, when Mr, Richard Kippist was chosen in his 

 place. 



March 1. The Secretary reported that since the last Meeting the Society had 

 received from Mr. Borrer the present of a valuable Herbarium of Fo- 

 reign Flowering Plants, and read the following Letter from Mr, Borrer 

 to Mr, Forster, offering it for the Society's acceptance : viz, — 



" My dear Sir, 



" Will you trouble yourself to offer for me to the acceptance of the Linnean 

 Society, as a contribution to their Herbarium, a collection, arranged in part 

 only, of foreign flowering plants? 



" It contains European plants from Mertens, Woods, Hooker, &c,, some of 

 Drummond's American ones, nearly all of Gardner's, so far as they are as yet 

 distributed, except the Cyperaceae and the Grasses, and some North American 

 from Hooker ; several of the Unio liineraria collections, from Arabia, Abyssinia, 

 Algiers, Caucasus, Norway, the Pyrenees, &c, ; Lippold's Madeira plants ; a few 

 from Australia, and home-dried garden specimens. From the Unio collections and 

 from Lippold's the plants of the first five Linnean classes have been taken out. 



« Yours faithfully, 



(Signed) « W, Borbeb," 



" Henfield, Dec, 10, 1841." 



It was ordered that the special Thanks of the Society be presented 

 to Mr. Borrer, for this important addition to the Society's Herba- 

 rium. 



April 5. The Secretary announced that the Society had received, in pur- 

 suance of the bequest of the late Professor Don, his Herbarium and 

 Collection of Woods and Fruits, with the exception of such as relate 

 to Materia Medico. 



April 19. The Secretary announced that the Treasurer had received from 

 the Executors of the late Archibald Menzies, Esq,, F.L.S., £90, being 

 the amount of a legacy of £100, bequeathed by him to the Linnean 

 Society, after deducting £10 for Legacy Duty. 



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