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XXXII. Extracts from the Minute-Books of the Linnean Society of London. 



1849. 

 Mar. 20. 



IT was unanimously resolved : — 



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That the Council express its deep regret at the severe loss which the Society has 

 sustained by the Death of its late Treasurer, Edward Forster, Esq., and its high sense of 

 his long-continued and valuable services ; and that this Resolution be communicated to 

 his Nephew, Edward Forster, Esq., with the request that it may be also communicated 

 to the other Members of his Family. 



1850. 

 May 24. An Oil Painting, by Maguire, of the late Bishop of Norwich, President of 

 the Society, was presented by the following Fellows, viz. : — 



W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



R. H. Solly, Esq. 



W. H. Solly, Esq. 



J. D. C. Sowerby, Esq. 



W. Spence, Esq. 



Sir G. T. Staunton, Bart. 



R. Taylor, Esq. 



W. Tebbitt, Esq. 



R. Wakefield, Esq. 



J. Walton, Esq. 



Alfred White, Esq. 



Dean of Winchester. 



J. E. Winterbottom, Esq. 



W. Yarrell, Esq. 



J. Yates, Esq. 



at the end of Chapter X. as follows : — 



" Sect. X. The Society shall not, and may not, make any Dividend, Gift, Division, or 

 Bonus in Money, unto or between any of its Members," 



having been hung up in the common Meeting-Boom of the Society, and read 

 by the President, or Vice-President in the Chair, at the last two successive 

 General Meetings of the Society, was put to the Ballot, and confirmed by the 

 Fellows at large in the terms of the Charter. 



1853. 

 May 24. Among the Presents announced was a Portrait of Linnaeus, copied by Prof. 

 Pasch from the original by Roslin, in the possession of the Boyal Academy of 

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