PEOCEEDIiNGS 



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OF THE 



LINNEAiN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION" 188S-89.) 



Nuvember 1st, 1888. 

 William Careutheks, F.R.S., President, iu the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were i*ead and confirmed. 



Dr. AVilliam Overend Priestley, John Evans, Esq., and John 

 Way, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Prof. P. Orpen Bower exhibited and made remarks upon some 

 adventitious buds on a leaf of Giietuni Gnemon. 



Mr. John Young exhibited : — 



1. A rare bird, Pluvianellus soeiahiUs, unobserved for fifty 

 years, and lately rediscovered by him in Patagonia. 



2. A cluster of nests formed of lichen ( Usnia) by a Swift, as 

 supposed of the genus CoUocalia, from a cave in Eimeo, one of 

 the Society Islands. 



.3. Some remarkably elongated tail-feathers of the domestic 

 Cock, 11 feet in length, artificially produced by the Japanese. 



4. Nest and eggs of the Snow-Bunting, Plecfrophanes nivalis, 

 taken during the past summer in Scotland. 



Mr. Thomas Christy exhibited a new method of transmitting 

 light to a microscope by means of a curved rod of glass. 



Mr. D. Morris exhibited some specimens of huskless barley 

 from Saharunpore, India. 



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