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3. " Notes on Capparis galeata, Fresen., and C. Murmyi, J. Gra- 

 ham," by N. A. Dalzell, Esq. Communicated by Dr. Hooker, 

 V.P.L.S. &c. 



AprH 6th, 1871. 

 George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The following papers were read, viz. : — 



1. "Notes on the Styles of Australian Proteacece,'^ by George 

 Eentham, Esq., F.R.S., Pres. L.S. 



2. "On the Generic Nomenclatuxe of Lepidoptera,^^ by G. R. 

 Crotch, M.A., Assistant Librarian in the University of Cambridge. 

 Communicated by Alfred Newton, Esq., F.R. & L.S. 



April 20th, 1871. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Adolphus Frederick Haselden, Esq., "William Hatchett Jackson, 

 Esq., and Albert Miiller, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



The following communications were read, viz. : — • 



1. " Notes on a paper, by Mr. Andrew Murray, F.L.S., on the 

 Geographical Eolations of the chief Coleopterous Faunae,'' by Roland 

 Trimen, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.E.S. 



2. Extract of a letter from Mr. Murray, on the relations between 

 the Fauna and Flora of South Africa and the Mediterranean element 

 of the European region. 



May 4th, 1871. 

 George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Professor Oswald Heer, of Zurich, was elected a Foreign Member. 



Mr. F. P. Balkwill, F.L.S., exhibited a specimen of Floral Proli- 

 fication in Jasione montana, found at Borisand, near Plymouth. 



