PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(ONE HUNDEED AND TENTH SESSION, 1897-98.) 



November 4tli, 1897. 



Pr. Albert C Jj. G. Gunther, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting w ere read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Erank Tufnail and John Stewart Eemington were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. F. Gr. Jackson, leader o£ the Jackson-Harmsworth Polar 

 Expedition, exhibited a series of lantern-slides, illustrating some 

 zoological observations of the Expedition, the most noteworthy 

 being views of the hibernaculum of the Polar Bear and of the 

 breeding liaunts in Franz Josef Land of the Ivory Grul[(Paffophila 

 eburnea), the eggs of which were also shown. 



A discussion followed, in which Mes-^rs. Harting, H. Saunders, 

 H. O. Forbes, H. J. Ehves, A. Trevor-Battye, the Eev. F. A. 

 "Walker, and Dr. Murie took part. 



Mr. H. Fisher, Botanist to the Expedition, brought for 

 exhibition a collection of Plants made by him in Franz Josef 

 Land, the consideration of which was deferred for want of time. 



Mr. Reginald Lodge exhibited some laut.^rn-slides of Marsh 

 Birds, their nests, eggs, and young, from photographs recently 

 taken iu Spain and Holland. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On tlie Attraction of Flowers for Insects." By the Eight 

 Hon. Sir J(»hn Lubbock, Bart., F.E.S., F.L.S. 



2. "On the Origin of Traust'usion-tissue in the Leaves of 

 Gymnospermous Plants." By W. C. AVorsdell. (Communi- 

 cated by Dr. Dukinfield 11. Scott, F.E.S., F.L.S.) 



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