PEOCEEDmds ^l^}^ '''^ 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1880-81.) 



November 4tli, 1880. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



Edward Brown, Esq., H. E. Dresser, Esq., and T. E. Peppe, 

 Esq., were elected Eellows. 



Mr. H. C. Sorby brought under notice drawings of British 

 Anemones found by him attached to the upper fronds of sea- 

 weeds in deep water ; and he mentioned the occurrence of a 

 cream-coloured Cetacean on our coast, species undetermined. 



Mr. Arthur Bennett drew attention to a new British Chara 

 (C. stelligera), remarkable for the presence of stellate bulbils 

 on the stems. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes exhibited microscopical slides of two Marine 

 Algae new to Britain — Dasya Gibhesii, Harv., from Berwick-on- 

 Tweed, and Ectocarpus terminalis, Kiitz., from Weymouth ; also 

 examples of Callithamnion roseum and C. upongiosum with anthe- 

 ridia and trichophora on the same branchlet ; also of Helmin- 

 tliora cUvaricata with zonate tetraspores, which have not hitherto 

 been observed. 



Dr. E,. C. A. Prior showed, and made remarks on, specimens 

 of Elybane {Amanita Huscaria) from Chipstable, West Somerset 



Dr. T. Spencer Cobbold exhibited a remarkable Trematode 

 from the Horse {Gastrodiscus Sonsinonis), discovered by Dr. 

 Sonsino at Zagazig in Egypt. 



Mr. Gr. E. Angas exhibited a Leaf of Hermas gigantea, an 

 Umbelliferous plant of the Caj^e. The fibro-vascular system had 



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