LINNEA3T SOCIETY OP LONDON. 



February 3rd, 1887. 



William Careuthees, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Michael Comport Grrabham, Esq., and George Wingate, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows. 



The vacancies among the Foreign Members, caused by the 

 deaths of Dr. Edmond Boissier, Dr. Johann Roeper, M. Louis 

 Eene Tulasne, Prof. Carl Theodor von Siebold, and Prof. Henri 

 Milne-Edwards, having been announced by the President, the 

 following nominations were made and the certificates ordered to 

 be suspended : — 



Dr. Georg August Schweinfurtb, Professor of Botany, Cairo, 

 Egypt. 



Count Hermann Solms-Laubach, Professor of Botany, Uni- 

 versity of Gcittingen. 



Dr. Franz Steindachner, of the Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 

 Austria, Conservator of Herpetology and Ichthyology, Eoyal 

 Museum of Vienna. 



Dr. Melchior Treub, Membre de I'Academie Eoyale Neerlan- 

 daise des Sciences, Dii'ector of the Botanic Garden, Buitenzorg, 

 Java. 



Dr. Augustus Weissmann, Professor of Zoology, University of 

 Freiburg, Baden. 



The President read a letter from Sir Francis Knollys, conveying 

 the regret of H.E.H. the Prince of Wales that his engagements 

 did not permit of his presence that evening to hear Dr. Aitchison's 

 paper. 



Mr. George Maw exhibited a specimen in flower of JVat^cissus 

 cyclamineus, grown by him from bulbs sent by Mr. A. W. Tait of 

 Oporto. The plant in question was known to Parkinson in 1640 

 (' Theatrum Botanicum '); it was also figured in the ' Jardin du 

 Eoy,' 1623, as N. Jiispanicus minor, amplo calice, foUis reflexis, 

 and in the ' Theatrum Florae ' in 1687, part 20, as N. his- 

 panicus minor luteus, amplo calice, foliis reJlexis, = N. minor, 

 var. cyclami^ieus of Haworth. Afterwards, having been lost 

 sight of, it was rediscovered near Oporto by Mr. Johnston in 

 1885. 



Mr. Maw also showed a drawing of Crocus Karducharum and 

 another of C. zonatiis for comparison. The former was intro- 

 duced in 1885, and flowered iu September 1886. It was origi- 

 nally discovered by Theodor Kotschy in the neighbourhood of 

 Sivas, 3° or 4° west of Mokas and Schewan, that shown beinsi 



