LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LOJSDON. 73 



April 3rd, 1890. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read aud contirraed. 



The Eev. James Tait Scott was elected a Fellow. 



Prof. P. M. Duncan exhibited, under the microscope, a section 

 o£ the corallum of Carifophyllia claims, showing septa aud irre- 

 gular thecsB between them. 



Mr. B. Dajdon Jackson exhibited, some capsules oiMystacidium 

 fiUcornu, an epiphytic Orchid, forwarded from Cape Towu by 

 Mr. Henry Hutton. 



The following paper was read : — 



1. " On the Morphology of the Gallinacece.'" By Prof. W. 

 Kitchen Parker, F.K.S., F.L.S. 



April 17th, 1890. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



John Bennett Carruthers, Esq., William Forsell Kirby, Esq., 

 Ernest E. Galpin, Esq., Thomas Johnson, Esq., and John Sidney 

 Turner, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



The President announced that the following Auditors to 

 examine the Treasurer's accounts had been nominated by the 

 Council : — 



For the Fellows, Dr. John Meiklejohn and Mr. Charles James 

 Breese ; for the Council, Mr. Greorge E. M. Murray aud Prof. 

 Dukinfield H. Scott; and by a show of hands these were unani- 

 mously elected. 



Lord Arthur EusselJ, on behalf of the Subscribers, presented to 

 the Society a portrait of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, painted by 

 Mr. Hubert Herkomer, A.E.A., and expressed the satisfaction 

 which he was sure would be felt at the acquisition of the likeness 

 of so distinguished a botanist. It was announced that a photo- 

 gravure of the portrait was in preparation, a copy of which would 

 be presented to every subscriber to the portrait fund. 



Prof. P. M. Duncan, F.E.S., exhibited a vertical section thiougli 

 a large Coral {Fungia echinata) cutting through and across the 

 septa and synapticula? aud the so-called base. The union of the 

 sides of continuous septa at the base is either incomplete or bv 

 means of synaptic ulse. 



Dr. Eduard Fischer, of Ziirich, exhibited and made remarks on 



