LINNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDON. 1 3 



May 3rd, 1888. 

 De. John Andeeson, P.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read aud confirmed. 



Alfred Vaughan Jennings, Esq., Leonard Alfred Boodle, Esq., 

 William Cash, Esq., and Augustine Henry, Esq., were elected 

 Eellows. 



Dr. Prof. Adolf Engler, Dr. Prof Thore Pries, Dr. Eobert 

 Hartig, Dr. Eugen Warming, and Dr. Anton Dohrn were 

 elected Foreign Members. 



The Chairman read the following resolution of the Council, 

 passed at a Meeting held the same day at 4.30 p.m. 



Eesolved: — That in connection with Centenary of the Society, 

 a Medal to be called " The Linnean Medal " be founded under 

 the following regulations : — 



1. The Medal shall be o£ gold, costing not less than £14. 



2. The Medal shall have on the obverse the head of 

 Linnaeus, modelled from the bust in the Library ; and on 

 the reverse the arms of the Society, with the name of the 

 recipient. 



3. The Medal shall be given in the present year to a 

 Botanist and a Zoologist, and in future years to a Botanist 

 and a Zoologist alternately, commencing with a Botanist. 



4. Any Biologist shall be eligible to receive the Medal 

 who is not at the time a Member of the Council. 



5. The person to whom the Medal is to be presented shall 

 be selected by the Council. 



6. The Medal shall be presented to the person to whom it 

 is awarded, or his representative, by the President at the 

 Anniversary Meeting, and the President in presenting the 

 same shall specify the grounds on which the Medal has 

 been awarded. 



Dr. Prancis Day exhibited some specimens of Lochleven and 

 Sea Trout, raised at Howietoun, to illustrate his observation 

 that the markings usually relied upon to distinguish the species 

 are not constant, and therefore, taken alone, of no value for the 

 purpose of identification. He also exhibited specimens of Trout 

 from Otago, N. Z., descendants of some which had been intro- 

 duced there, presenting some curious modifications of structure. 



There were shown for Mr. Miller Christy some specimens of 

 the Bardfield Oxlip, Primula elatior, Jacq., gathered near Dun- 

 mow, and peculiar to this part of England. 



