LINKEA.N SOCIETY OF LO>'DOX. 



JS'ovember 17tli, 1898. 



Dr. Albert C. L. Gr. Gunthee, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Albert Harrison and Charles Chamberlain Hurst were 

 admitted, and Mr. AVilliam Eichard Carles was elected a Eellow 

 of the Society. 



Prof. Stewart, P.E.S., P.L.S., exhibited and made remarks oa 

 the skull of a. Fox that was described and figured by Bateson in 

 his work on V^ariatiou. Buth upper canines had divided crowns. 

 He also exhibited the double tusk of an Indian Elephant. The 

 tusk was two feet in length, and had a deep groove on its anterior 

 and posterior surfaces. He considered that in both cases the 

 condition was probably due to partial cleavage or grooving of the 

 dental papilla. The President, referring to the exhibition of a, 

 somewhat similar tusk at the previous Meeting, indicated the 

 points in which the two examples differed. 



The following ])apers were read : — 



1. " On some Spiders from Chile and Peru, collected by 

 Dr. Platte of Berlin." By F. Pickard Cambridge. (Communi- 

 cated by Prof. Howes, Sec. L. Soc.) 



2. " The Botanical Eesults of a Journey into the Interior of 

 Western Australia ; with some observations on the nature and 

 relations of the Desert-Flora, and on the probable origin of the 

 Australian Flora as a whole." Bj Spencer L, Moore, F.L.S. 



December 1st, 1898. 

 Dr. Albeet C. L. G-. Gcxthee, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting having been read and con- 

 firmed, the President spoke as follows : — " Before we proceed to 

 the regular business of this meeting, I beg to express -a word of 

 deep regret at the loss which we have sustained by the death of 

 Professor George James Allman. He died on November 2I;th 

 at Ardmore, his Dorsetshire residence, at the age of 87. 



" He has been one of the most distinguished and honoured of 

 our Fellows, and justly so. He was an earnest and successful 

 investigator of the fauna of British marine Invertebrates, and his 

 contributions to our knowledge of Freshwater Polyzoa and 

 Gymnoblastic Hydroids, although published respectively 40 and 

 25 years ago, are still used as standard works. But it is on 

 nearer and more personal grounds that we claim to give expression 

 to oyr sympathy. Professor Allman occupied the Presidential 

 Chair of the Liunean Society for seven years, from 1874 to 1881 ; 



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