t.iyxEAX SOCIETY or LOKDO:S^ 5? 



line, (h'as nujensilerahhtws aajuor, wliicli gives culour to the liclicf 

 tliJit this was pniiited hefore the faikire of tlie plan to embark on 

 the ' liesolution ' in 1772. 



[The Society also ])('ssespes a holograph of Banks prepared by 

 him as "Hints on the subject of (Jardeniiig suggested to the 

 gentlemen who attend the Embassy to China " for Lord Maenrtney's 

 Embassy in 1792, which was given to the Society in 1823, with a 

 covering letter from Sir George Staunton, stating that it was 

 found amongst the papers of the Embassy.] 



June 24th, 1920. 



Dr. A. Sv.iTH WoooAVAUD, F.li.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The INIinutes of the General Meeting of the I7th June, 192U, 

 were read and coiitirmed. 



The report of the Donations received since the last Meeting 

 was laid before the Ecllows, and the thanks of the Society to the 

 several Donors were ordered. 



Dr. Eobin John Tillyard, Mr. James Hornell, and Mr. Walter 

 John Dowson, M.A. ((.'antab.), were admitted Fellows. 



Mr. Henry Baker Lacey and Miss Ethel Spratt, D.Sc. (Loud.), 

 were proposed as Fellows. 



Mr. Chintauian Mahader Tembc was elected a Fellow. 



The proposed alterations in the Bye-Laws, which had been 

 read from the Chair on the 3rd and 17th June last, were 

 submitted to a ballot by the Fellows present and adopted. 



The General Secretary read a letter received from the Swedish 

 Linnean Society regarding the proposed restoration of the old 

 Botanic Garden at Uppsala with the house in it formerly occupied 

 by Carl von Linne. As the Society is debarred by its Charters 

 from making a direct grant to this praiseworthy object, it can oidy 

 be effected by private effort, and notwithstanding the numerous 

 demands made at the present time, it is hoped that substantial 

 assistance toAvards realising this memorial to our eponymous hero 

 will be forthcoming. 



Dr. Karl J. F. Skottsbeug, Director of the Gtiteborg Botanic 

 Garden, and leader of the Swedish Expedition to Patagonia and 



