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WEDNESDAY, APEIL 28th, 1880. 



The President, tlie Eev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, F.Gf-.S., F.L.S., 

 &c., in tlie Chair. 



Visitors present: — H. Selkirk, Esq., and the Very Eev. Dean 

 Lynch. 



Gl. S. Bray, Esq., was elected a member of the Society. 



DONATIONS. 



From Harvard College. — Annual Eeport of Curator of Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, 1878-79. Index to Vol. V. of Bulletin. 

 Bulletin, Vol. V., No. 16. 



From Baron F. von Mueller, K.O.M.Q-., etc.. Index perfectus 

 ad Caroli Linnaei, species plantarum. 



From Nurlandaise Soc. des Sciences Exactes et Nat. Haarlem, 

 Vol. 14, pars 3 and 5, of their Proceedings. 



From Eoyal Microscopical Soc, London. — Vol. II., parts 3, 4, 

 5, 6, 7, and 7a. 



PAPEKS READ. 



On a New Species of Nepenthes. 

 By F. M. Bailey, Esq., F.L.S., Corr. Mem. Linn. Soc. 

 The order of NepenthacecB which belongs to Lindley's euporbial 

 alliance of diclinous exogens, is limited to the single genus 

 Nepenthes. It is spread over Southern Asia and the islands of the 

 Indian and South Pacific Oceans, but most abundant according 

 to Bentham in the Indian Archipelago. The species are natives 

 of swampy ground, with no known properties, they are only 

 cultivated because of the curious leafy sack or pitcher as it is 

 called, which is formed at the extremity of the leaves. This has 



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