PEOGEEDIMS 



OP THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1881-82.) 



November 3rd, 1881. 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The President, in announcing the death of the Treasurer, Mr. 

 Frederick Currey, spoke of the universal esteem in which he was 

 held, and put the following Minutes of Council to the Meeting : — 



" That the Council and Fellows of the Linnean Society of 

 London, having heard with the deepest regret of the death of 

 the Treasurer, Mr. Frederick Currey, desire to place upon 

 record their sense of the great loss sustained by the Society in 

 his death, and their sincere appreciation of the valuable ser- 

 vices rendered by him during twenty years as Secretary, and 

 afterwards as Treasurer. 



" That a copy of the foregoing Eesolution be communicated 

 to the family of the late Treasurer." 



These Eesolutions having been spoken to by Mr. Gr. Bentham, 

 Mr. H. T. Stainton, and Prof. St. George Mivart, were carried 

 unanimously. 



The Eev. William Henry Jones and the Eev. William Moyle 

 Rogers were elected Fellows. 



Mr. E-. M^Lachlan exhibited a parthenogenetically-bred Beetle 

 {Gastrophi/sa raphani), which was the secoud reared by Dr. J. A. 

 Osborne in Ireland. The egg which produced it was one of a 

 batch of forty-two laid by a virgin female on 14th June, and was 



