LINNEAJy SOCIETY OF LONDON. Ill 



A SMALL CoLiECTiON OF Deeh-hoens, comprising — 



(1) A pair of Fallow-deer horns from Epping Forest, showing 



the attenuation resulting from isolation, as compared 

 with 



(2) A pair o£ Fallow-deer horns of the normal character 



from LTppark, Sussex. 



(3) Single horns of the Eoe and Fallow-d^er which have 



been partially eaten by their kind, thus explaining the 

 infrequeucy with which shed horns are found. 



(4) Frontal portion of the skull of a hornless stag shot in 



tlie Royal forest of Goerde, in Hanover, by the late 

 Emperor of Grermany. 

 Lent by J. E. Harting, F.L.S. 



June 7th, 1888. 

 William Cabeuthebs, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting, the Centenary Anni- 

 versary, were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Christy moved, and Mr. Breese seconded, a vote of thanks 

 to the President and Officers for their services during the past 

 twelve months, and for the increased work undertaken by them 

 in connection with the Centenary of the Society. The motion 

 having been carried unanimously, the President, in reply, referred 

 to the cordial and unfailing support he had received from his 

 colleagues, in whose names, as well as his own, he returned 

 thanks. 



George Charles Haite, Esq., and Charles Alfred Hebbert, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows. 



The President nominated Mr. Frank Crisp, Dr. Maxwell T. 

 Masters, Dr. John Anderson, and Mr. Charles Baron Clarke to 

 be the Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year. 



Prof. P. Martin Duncan exhibited, under the microscope, de- 

 calcified and stained portions of the test of Lnganum depressum, 

 and remarked on the structural characters to be relied on for the 

 discrimination of the species. 



Mr. Daniel Morris exhibited some drawings of an Exohasidiiim, 

 a Fungus which causes singular distortions of the leaves of 

 Lyonia in Jamaica. 



The following paper was read : — 



" On the Natural History of Fernando Noronha." Bv Heurv 

 N, Ridley, M.A., F.L.S. ' ' ^ 



