LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. II 



April Sth, 1888. 



"William Cabruthers, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



George Bretlingham Sowerby, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. Daniel Morris showed a native bracelet from Martinique. 

 Although formed apparently of seeds, or beads of wood or bone, 

 its real composition had puzzled both botanists and zoologists, 

 and until microscopically examined could not be determined. 



Mr, J. Gr. Baker, F.E.S., exhibited a series of specimens of 

 Adiantum Fergiisoni and A. GapilUs-Veneris, and offered some 

 remarks upon their specific and varietal characters. 



Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited a specimen of a rare British animal, 

 the Pine-Marten, which had been trapped in Cumberland, and 

 made some observations on the present distribution of the species 

 in the British Islands. 



Mr. Clement Eeid exhibited a series of fruits and seeds, ob- 

 tained by Mr. J. Bennie from intergiacial deposits near Edin- 

 burgh, affording evidence of a colder climate than that now pre- 

 vailing in tiie Lowlands of Scotland. 



Mr. F. Crisp exhibited some fragmentary remains of a wild 

 Goose shot in Somersetshire, which had been reported as the 

 Lesser White-fronted Goose, Anser erythropus, Linn., but 

 which was apparently an immature specimen of Anser alhifrons, 

 Scopoli. 



In the absence of tlie author, the following paper was read by 

 the Secretary : — 



" On some Ovicells of the Cyclostomatous Polyzoa." By 

 Arthur William Waters, F.L.S. 



April 19th, 1888. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Frederick Ernest Weiss, Esq., E-ev. William Johnson, and 

 Dr. Reginald Gervase Alexander were elected Fellows. 



The Meeting having been declared special for the election of 

 a Councillor in the place of Mr. James E. Harting, resigned, the 

 President announced that the Ballot would be taken to fill the 

 vacancy thus caused. 



