PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1886-87.) 



November 4th, 1886. 



"William Caeeuthees, F.E.S., President, ia the Chair. 



The Minutes of tlie last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The President, in welcoming tlie Pellows to the first Meeting 

 of tiie new Session, made some remarks as to what work had 

 been done during the Recess, and in a passing tribute com- 

 mented on the loss which Science and the Society had sustained 

 by the death of Mr. George Busk, a former Secretary and Vice- 

 President. 



The President afterwards drew attention to stained specimens 

 under the microscope of phosphorescent organisms obtained by 

 him in the Firth of Clyde in September last, the chief object 

 being Ceratium tripos. 



Mr. John Murray thereafter made further remarks on the 

 same, stating that near Cumbrae Islands immense quantities of 

 yellow material containing these organisms in abundance were 

 obtained at every haul. He alluded to his own observations of 

 the species being found in long chains in the ocean (Narr, 

 Cruise of the ' Challenger'), and to Klebs's opinion of Ceratium 

 being a genus of unicellular Algae, and not an Infusorian animal 

 as commonly supposed. 



Prof. J. Macoun made remarks on a series of Cones of Canadian 



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