LIN:yEAN SOCIETY OF LOJfDON. 1 5 



Prof. Johu Merle Coulter, Dr. Samuel Garman, Prof. Giovanni 

 Battista Grassi, Prof. Louis Alexandre Mangin, and Prof. Jean 

 Massart were proposed as Foreign Members. 



Certificates, in favour of tlie following, were read for the second 

 time : — William Edward Hollows, Santi ProsadSen Gupta, B.Ag., 

 F.R.H.S., Shanker Gauesh Sharngapani, B.Ag., F.E.H.S., Donald 

 Ward Cutler, M.A., and Jolin Noel Milsum, F.E.H.S. 



The following were elected Fellows : — Keppel Harcourt 

 Barnard, M.A. (Cantab.), The Eev. Johu Fernand Caius, S.J., 

 Ph.D., Albert Edward Mills, F.C.S., M.P.S., Samuel Lyon, 

 F.R.G.S., Sydney Cross Harland, D.Sc. (Loud.), Charles Coltman- 

 Piogers, Samuel Gordon Smith, F.E.S., Henry Ball, Capt. Bertram 

 Haniner Bunbury Syuions- Jeune, and Dr. Sadao Yoshida. 



The President announced that Ballots would take place on the 

 5th May for Fellows and Foreign Members, and on the 16th June 

 for Fellows. 



Mr. R. T. GuNTiiEK exhibited and spoke on certain Manuscripts 

 in the Library of Magdalen College, Oxford, the following being 

 an abstract of his remarks : — 



The Manuscripts exhibited were all bequeathed to Magdalen 

 College, Oxford, by John Goodyeu with his botanical library in 

 1(j64. Goodyer had not been a member of the College himself, 

 but knew it through his father having b^en a tenant of a College 

 farm at Alton (where John Goodyer was born), and through his 

 brother-in-law, William Yalden of Sheet, who acted as one of the 

 College bailiffs and clerk of the account, and also through his heir 

 and nephew, Edmund Yalden, who became a Demy and Fellow 

 of the College. 



The Manuscripts, bound in Goodyei-'s time,' include his own 

 translations of Theophrastus and Dioscoridcs into English; the 

 latter has not been uudertaken by any other scholar eitlier before 

 or since. One volume contains a long list of Grasses Avitli their 

 synonyms and short descriptions, descriptions of various plants 

 copied from Lobel's MSS. (now lost ?), and an Index of Plants in 

 (ioodyer's hand, an Index to Gerard's Herbal (1597) and Stone- 

 house's Catalogue of plants growing in his gaitlen at Darheld in 

 IG-tO. The loose papers recently sorted and bound comprise apart 

 of the MS. material for Lobel's projected work, Stir2^liim lUnstra- 

 tioites, now bound in three parts, the first of which, containing the 

 descriptions of 223 species of Grasses, lias been bound in a cover 

 which appears to have originally held notes De Fehribus by Lobel's 

 master, Eondelet ; a volume of the leaves from which How's 

 selection from Lobel's 'Stirpium Illustrationes ' was printed in 

 1655; this is a relic of the highest interest, typogi'aphical 

 as well as botanical, and because it contains Lobel's original 



