PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1878-79.) 



November 7th, 1878. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



The Eev. William Weekes Fowler, M.A., Wilfred Hudleston, 

 Esq., and Thomas Moss Shuttleworth, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



A Portrait in Oil of the Eev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S.,by 

 Mr. Peel, was presented by Sir J. D. Hooker, on the part of the 

 Subscribers; and the Special Thanks of the Society were voted 

 for this very valuable and acceptable Donation. 



Dr. Prior, F.L.S., exhibited a branch of the CoUetia cruciata, 

 Hook. (C hictonenais, Lindl.), covered with flowers, which had 

 been produced in the open air, at the Bev. W. Sotheby's, Langford 

 Budville, Wellington, Somerset. 



Dr. Boycott, F.L.S., exhibited a mass of a species of Nitella 

 obtained in June last from a dried-up pond in St. Leonard's 

 Forest, Sussex, where it covered some acres. 



Mr. Thomas Christy, F.L.S., exhibited living plants of India- 

 rubber trees ( Tlrostigma Yogelii), and a plant from the West Coast 

 of Africa said to produce a good Eubber; also the fruit, leaves, 

 and flower-stem of LandoJfhia flcrida. 



Dr. Masters, F.L.S., read an extract of a letter from Dr. O. 

 Beccari, describing a gigantic Aroid found by him in Sumatra, 

 growing side by side with Raffiesia Arnoldi. The plant resembles 

 an Amorjyhophalhis, and has a large tuber 5 feet round, from which 

 is pushed up a single leaf, with a divided blade, covering an area 

 of 45 feet. Seedlings have been raised in the garden of the 

 Marquis Corsi Salviato at Florence. 



