688 
1838. 
June 19. 
Nov. 6. 
Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society. 
directed to it to lead to its discovery in other localities; and I shail 
be happy if my meeting with it so near London may be the means 
of getting it restored to the British Flora, where it certainly is at 
least as much entitled to a place as Centranthus ruber, Petroselinum 
sativum, and other avowedly naturalized plants.” 
Read a “Description of a new Species of Cattleya.” By R. H. 
Schomburgk, Esq. Communicated by Professor Lindley, F.L.S. 
Mr. Schomburgk’s figure and description of this plant, to which 
he gives the name of Cattleya superba, have since been published by 
Professor Lindley in his Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 22. 
The Vice-President in the Chair announced to the Meeting, that 
the late Nathaniel John Winch, Esq., A.L.S., of Newcastle-upon- 
Tyne, had bequeathed to the Society his entire Herbarium, consist- 
ing of upwards of 12,000 species of Plants, together with his Library 
of Natural History. 
Read a “ Notice of the occurrence of Procellaria Wilsoni on the 
British Coast." By Jonathan Couch, Esq., F.L.S. 
Mr. Couch states, that *about the middle of August of the present 
year, the Stormy Petrel, Proc. Pelagica, abounded on the south coast 
of Cornwall, driven thither, it is probable, by about a week's conti- 
nuance of wind accompanied by rain; under which circumstances 
they are commonly found by thousands at a few miles from land, in 
the months of September and October. It is probable that the 
weather, as described above, had driven to us this rare stranger, the 
first of its species I believe on record as having occurred in Britain, 
which was found at the same time dead in a field at a few miles from 
Polperro, and was brought to me for examination. As our sailor 
boys were in possession of numerous living specimens of the Stormy 
Petrel, which are taken with great facility when the weather suits, 
I found no difficulty in instituting a comparative. examination of 
these two species; and I beg leave to lay the result before the 
