PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINXEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1879-80.) 



November 6th, 1879. 



Prof. a. J. Allmax, M.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



William Harper Twelvetrees, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



The President, in opening the Session, made a few obituary 

 remarks on Mr. John Miers and Mr. William Wilson Saunders, 

 both very old and respected Fellows of the Society. He then 

 called attention to the volumes on the table, viz. : Stein's 

 ' Infusoria,' presented by Prof. Reay Grreene, F.L.S., and Hussey's 

 ' Mycological Illustrations,' presented by Thomas Walker, P. L.S. 



Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer brought forward to the Fellows' 

 notice a series of Photographs of Vegetation (including Cinchona 

 Leclgenana) in the Botanic Gardens of Buiteuzorg, Java. 



Some stereoscopic photographs, taken by Mr. F. H. Worsley- 

 Benison, of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, were exhibited by W. A. 

 Shoolbred, F.L.S. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Structure and Habit of Remileia vastatrixr By 

 D. Morris, Esq. Communicated by W. T. Thiselton Dyez', 

 F.L.S. 



(A Note from the Eev. E. Abbay referring to Mr. Morris's 

 paper was read by the Secretary.) 



2. " Instincts and Emotions of Fish." By Dr. Francis Day, 

 F.L.S. 



3. " Origin of the (so-called) Scorpioid Cyme." By Rev. Gr. 

 Henslow, M.A., F.L.S. 



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