LINNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDOIST Xll 



That tljo following Pellow had withdrawn, 

 A. P. Haselden, Esq. 



And that forty-three Fellows and three Foreign Members had 

 been elected since the last Anniversary. 



The President then opened the business of the day, and tho 

 Members pi'csent proceeded to ballot for the Council and Ofllcers 

 for the ensuing year. 



The Ballot for tho Council having closed, the President nomi- 

 nated JMr. Grut, INIr, M'Lachlan, and jNIr. Pascoo to be Scruti- 

 neers ; the votes having been counted and reported to the Presi- 

 dent, he declared the following Members to be removed from tlio 

 Council, viz. : — 



George Bentham, P.E.S.,Lieut.-Gen. Scott, C.B.,"R. B. Sharpe, 

 Esq., H. T. Staiutou, Esq., Cliarles Stewart, Esq. 



And the following to be elected into the Council, viz. : — 



Lieut.-Col. Grant, "William Carrnthers, Esq., Eobert Iludson, 

 Esq., John Millar, M.D., E. C. A. Prior, M.D. 



The Ballot for the Officers having also closed, the President 

 appointed the same Scrutineers ; the votes having been counted 

 and reported to tho President, he declared the following to be 

 elected, viz. : — President, Prof. G. J. Allman, M.D. ; Treasurer, 

 J. Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D. ; Secretaries, Frederick Currey, Esq., 

 and St. George J. Mivart, Esq. 



After the reading of the President's Address, it was moved by 

 Mr. Busk, seconded by Dr. Carpenter, and unanimously resolved. 

 That the thanks of the Society be given to Dr. Allman for his 

 excellent Address, and that he be requested to allow it to be 

 printed. [It will be found in the Journal, Zoology (No. 71), xiii, 

 pp. 3 85- 1-39.] 



June 7th, 1877. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



W. E. M'Nab, M.D., Captain George Peter Moore, and Thomas 

 William AVonfor, Esq., wei'e elected Fellows. 



The President nominated George Busk, Esq., AV. B. Carpenter, 

 M.D., William Carruthers, Esq., and J. Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D., 

 A^ice-Presidents for the ensuing year. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "On some Points in the Morphology of the Primulacea\" 

 By M. T. Masters, M.D., F.E.S., F.L.S. ' 



2. "Note on the Causes of Numerical Increase in the Parts of 

 Plants." By the Eev. George Heuslow, M.A., F.L.S. 



3. " On the Nymph-Stage of the Embidce, with Notes on the 

 Habits of the Family." My Eobert M^Lachlau, F.L.S. 



