PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSIOIS' 1883-84.) 



November 1st, 1883. 



Eeank Ceisp, LL.B., Treasurer and Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Thomas Edward Gruan, Esq., and Alexander Hutton, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows. 



A letter from Dr. John Evans, Treas. E.S., enclosing the 

 following, was read by the Secretary, and the papers referred to 

 (which are printed in the Appendix) laid before the Meeting : — 



" Holywell Hill, St. Albans, Herts. 

 « Sljl^ — October 29tb, 1883. 



We, the undersigned, descendants of the well-known 

 botanical artist, Greorge Dionysius Ehret, have the honour to 

 ofter for the acceptance of the Linnean Society the accompanying 

 letters, seven of which were addressed to Mr. Ehret by the great 

 Linnaeus between 173G and 1769, and the remaining four are 

 either translations of letters from Linmieus or connected with 

 botanical subjects. 



" We oiier these letters to the Linnean Society in tlie full 

 belief that they will, in your Society's Library, be most fitly 

 jjreserved and be at the same time most generally accessible to 

 those interested in the history of the great naturalist alter whom 

 your Society is named. 



" We append a short memoir of Greorge Dionysius Ehret, 

 together with a bi'ief genealogical statement showing our descent 



LINN. SOC. PBOCEEDLNGS. — SESSION 1883-84!. h 



