LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



The following paper was then read : — 



"On the Morphology, Anatomy, and Life History of the 

 Coniferaj." By Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.ll.S., F.L.S. 



May 2 lid, 1889. 



Charles Baron Clarke, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair, 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



C. Hedley, Esq., Theophilus William Girdlestoiie, Esq., and 

 Edward Ernest Prince, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Dr. Wilhelfli Pfeffer, Tiibingen, was elected a Foreign Member. 



Mr. Thomas Christy made some remarks upon the leaves of a 

 variety of Coca from Japan. These he described as brittle and 

 thin, with hardly any trace of cocaine, though yielding 8 per 

 cent, of crj stallizable substance. The thicker leaves of the Peru- 

 vian plant yielded a larger percentage of cocaine, though at first 

 rejected on account of their more gelatinous nature. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Cyatocarps of Ehodymenia palmata.'''' By John 

 B. Carruthers. (Communicated by William Carruthers, P.L.S., 

 F.E.S.) 



2. "AMonographof the Thelephorea).— Part III." By George 

 Massee. (Communicated by W . T. Thiselton Dyer, F.E.S., 

 F.L.S.) 



8. " An Enumeration of Japanese Musci and Hepatica)." By 

 William Mitten, A.L.S. 



May 24th, 1889. 

 Anniversarii Meeting. 

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

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



A portrait of John Jacob Dillenius (1687-1747), the first 

 Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford, copied from the ori- 

 ginal picture at that place, was presented to the Society by the 

 President, Avho gave a brief outline of the career of Dillenius, and 

 of his personal acquaintance with Linnaeus. 



The Treasurer presented the Annual Statement of Accounts 

 duly audited as follows ; — 



