XXX. Extracts from the MiNvrvE-Book of the LINNEAN Society of 
-Lonpon. 
1845. 
Nov. 4. THE special thanks of the Society were ordered to be presented to 
Joseph Janson, Esq., for his present of three additional Cabinets for 
the Society’s Collection of Dried Plants. 
1846. 
May 24. The Secretary announced that the late Joseph Janson, Esq. F.L.S., 
had bequeathed to the Society a Legacy of £100. 
1847. 
Jan. 8. At a Special General Meeting convened by the Council in the 
terms of the following circular :— 
“ Linnean Society, 32 Soho Square, 
* Sir, December 28th, 1846. 
* You are requested to attend a Special General Meeting of the Society, on 
Friday the 8th of January next, at two o’clock in the afternoon precisely, to 
consider the subject of the following Statement and Resolution of Council. 
* The late Edward Rudge, Esq., F.L.S., who died on the 3rd of September 
last, has in his will made the following bequest :— 
* I give and bequeath to the President and Council for the time being 
of the Linnean Society of London, the sum of Two Hundred Pounds, in 
trust, to invest the same in the names of Trustees, in the purchase of 3 per 
cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, and from time to time, as occasion 
may require, out of the Dividends thereof, to purchase a Gold Medal, to 
be called * The Linnean Medal, to be awarded by the President and 
Council of the said Society, at their discretion, to the Fellow of the said 
Society who shall write the best communication in each volume which 
after my decease shall be published by the said Society, in either of the 
four departments of Natural History, every such Gold Medal to contain 
the Profile Bust of Linnszus in his full dress, encircled by his name and 
the dates of his birth and death on the one side, and the engraved name 
of the Fellow of the said Society to whom such Medal shall be awarded, 
encircled by a wreath of the Linnea borealis, on the obverse.’ 
