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published volumes of Linnean correspondence have by no means 

 entirely exhausted the subject, though at this date their historical 

 outshadows their purely scientific wortli. The Council freely per- 

 mitted Dr. Ahrliug to transcribe, and afterwards publish in his 

 ' Carl von Linne's Arbeten,' any of the Linnean letters or other 

 matter lie should deem desirable. 



Commencing under Dr. Ahrling's supervision, our own Officers 

 have since during last year finally arranged alphabetically the 

 Linnean Correspondence, so that now any special writer's letters 

 can be laid hands on with ease. The Council have sanctioned 

 the binding of the letters ; but as these require special care, 

 time, and great attention, binding necessarily proceeds at a slovr 

 rate. 



Later on (viz. last summer) the Council acceded to a request 

 made by the Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Council granted 

 that the original MS. of Linnjeus's ' Iter Lapponicum ' and a 

 set of electros of the old woodcuts from Linuajus's own rude 

 drawings made during his celebrated journey, should be trans- 

 mitted in a sealed case to Prof. Liudhagen, secretary o£ the 

 Stockholm Academy. These, under the Academy's surveillance, 

 Dr. Ahrling was to ti'anscribe and use, preparatory to his forth- 

 coming new edition in Swedish of his countryman's journey. 



The MS. has, I may add, been safely returned, and is now 

 laid on tlie table. 



As the Fellows will remember, the portrait of the late Mr. 

 Charles Darwin, painted from lite by Mr. Jolm Collier, though 

 finished before the last Anniversary, could not then be formally 

 presented to the Society, seeing that permission was given to 

 exhibit it publicly at the Royal Academy. Today, however, Mr. 

 Eomanes hands it over in due form ; and there can be no doubt 

 as to the valuable acquisition the Society receives in memory of 

 its distinguished and lamented Fellow. 



Mr. Power's donation of the bust of the late Louis Agassiz, 

 our Foreign Member, is another valuable addition to the So- 

 ciety's mementos o£ her great departed. The original marble 

 bust by the celebrated American sculptor Hiram Power occupies 

 a niche in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, 

 Mass., TJ. S. A. ; and our Society is indebted to the artist's son for 

 the duplicate cast now presented. 



Among other acquisitions to the Society's series of portraits of 

 eminent Naturalists received within the last twelve months may- 

 be named : — 



1. That of Thomas Pennant. The engraving was originally the 

 property of our late Secretary Mr. Edward E. Alston, and recently, 

 after his death, presented to tlie Society by his mother through 

 Mr. Howard Saunders, F.L.S. 



2. An autotype of the original engraving of Samuel Dale, 

 (1738), presented by Mr. G. S. Boulger, F.L.S. 



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