LINKEAX SOCIETY OF LONDON. iii 



January 20tb, 1S76. 



Prof. G. J. Allman, M.D., F.E.H., Presideut, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of tlie last Meeting were read and signed. 



Jolm Henry Baklock, Esq., and G. W. Bloxam, M.A., were 

 elected Fellows. 



The following papers were read ; — 



1. " On a new Species of Oak from the Sikkiui Himalaya." By 

 George King, M.B., P.L.8. 



2. " On some Orchidaceio collected by Mr. Moseley, of the 

 ' Challenger' Expedition, in the Admiralty Islands, Ternate, and 

 Cape York ; one of which forms the type of a new Section of the 

 Genus Dendrohiuiii." By Prof. H. G. Eeichenbach. Communi- 

 cated by Prof. Oliver, E.E.S., E.L.S. 



3. " Supplement to the Enumeration of the Fungi of Brazil." 

 By the Eev. M. J. Berkeley, F.L.S., and M. C. Cooke,'M. A., LL.H. 



4. " On Steere's Sponge, a new Geniis of the Hexactinellid 

 Group of the Spongidre." ]3y James Murie, M.D., F.L.S. 



February 3rd, 187G. 

 Prof. G. J. Allman, M.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair, 

 The Minutes of the last jMeeting were I'ead and signed. 



William Hillhouse, Esq., Daniel Pidgeon, Esq., David Eobert- 

 sou, Esq., and Edwin Eay Lankester, M.A., were elected Fellows. 



Mr. Algernon Peckover, F.L.S. , exhibited specimens of Insects 

 collected in Madagascar in 1875 by Mr. Kingdom. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " JS^ote on Boca C'oOTwersonw, E. Br." By Henry Trimen, 

 M.B., F.L.S. 



2. "On the Geographical Distribution of the Vultures." By 

 E. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S. 



3. " On new British Lichens." By the Eev. W. A. Leightou, 

 B.A., F.L.S. 



4. " Lichenes Capenses et Lichenes Terrse Kergueleni ; an 

 Enumeration of the Lichens collected by the Eev. A. E. Eaton 

 at the Cape of Good Hope and Kerguelen Land during the Venus 

 Transit Expedition in 1874-75." By the Eev. James M. Crombie, 

 F.L.S. 



February 17th, 1S7G. 



J. GwiN Jefpkeys, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



David Douglas Cunningham, M.B., Isathaniel Clissold Tuely, 

 Esq., Charles Marcus Wakefield, Esq., and Charles Frederick 

 White, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



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