PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1882-83.) 



November 2nd, 1882. 



Sir John Lubbock, Bart., President, in tlie Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Prof. J. C. Ewart, Greorge Fry, Esq., and Thomas de G-rey 

 Lord Walsingham were elected Fellows. 



Mr. A. P. W. Thomas exhibited preparations showing the life- 

 history of the Liver-fluke (Fasciola hejjatica), the embryos as free 

 cercarise burrowing into and developing in the body of LimncBa 

 tnmcatula. 



Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer exhibited tlie plant producing 

 "Cassia lignea" and tbe implements used in its preparation m 

 Southern China. 



Mr. C. T. Druery showed seedling proliferous forms of Athy- 

 rkivi FlUx-fcemina. 



Mr. F. Crisp showed preparations sent by Drs. Loew and 

 Bokorny, of Munich, to illustrate the claimed discovery of a 

 specific chemical difterence between dead aud living protoplasm. 



Prof. E. Eay Laukester exhibited marine organisms dredged 

 by him oft the coast of Norway, including a branch of Para- 

 gorgia arhorea three feet across. 



Mr. T. Christy exhibited a living specimen of the Japanese 

 Peppermint plant, which yields the Menthol of commerce ; bota- 

 nically it was not found to difter from Mentha arveiisis. 



Dr. F. Day showed specimens of American Brook-Trout, and a 



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