12 PnOCF.EDTNOS OF THE 



The following Ecsolution was read from the Chair: — 



" The Fellows of the Linuean Society assembled in their 

 Anniversary Meetiiij^ desire to contrratulate Mr. Bentham 

 and 8ir Joseph Hooker on the completion of the great work on 

 which during more than twenty years they have been engaged, 

 and to express their sense of the immense value of the ' Genera 

 Plantarum ' as a philosophic and exhaustive exposition of the 

 known forms of flowering plants." 



This Eesolution having been spoken to by Mr. Carruthers, 

 was carried unanimously. 



June 7th, 1883. 

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

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Letters from Mr. Bentham and Sir Joseph Hooker in acknow- 

 ledgment of the Eesolution passed at the Anniversary Meeting 

 on the completion of their ' Genera Plantarum ' were read and 

 laid on the table. 



The President nominated Sir Joseph Hooker, Prof. Duncan, 

 Mr. Crisp, and Mr. H. T. Staintou as Vice-Presidents for the 

 ensuing Session. 



Eobert Ingham Clark, Esq., and Frank Matthews, Esq., were 

 elected Fellows. 



Mr. "W. T. Thiselton Dyer showed a series of Copals, some 

 from Inhambanc, stated to be the product of Copaifcra Gors- 

 Iciana ; others from Lagos, obtained by Capt. Moloney, suj^posed 

 to be derived from a species of Daniellia, the native name being 

 "Ogea." 



Mr. P. Hiern exhibited Qnerctis Ilecc, var. Fordii, from Barn- 

 staple, to show the alterations in the foliage produced after 

 pruning. 



Mr. Stansfield E, Eake showed a Burdock-leaf with pitcher- 

 shaped excrescences, supposed to be the result of insect dej^re- 

 dation. 



Mr. George Murray exhibited a specimen of Dace killed by 

 Saprolefftiia ferax, the result of inoculation, said to be the first 

 recorded experimental proof of Ihe communicability of the disease. 



Dr. Cobbold exhibited Shrimps sent by Dr. Burge, of Shanghae, 

 containing immature Flukes, suggested as being the larval state 

 of one or other of the three S2:)ecies of human fluke known to 

 infest man in the East. He proposed to name the parasite Cer- 

 carta Burgei. 



