PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1872-73.) 



November 7th, 1872. 



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

 The Rev. C. W. Penny was elected a Fellow. 



The President read two letters, in her own hand, from Lady 

 Smith (now in her 100th year), offering for the acceptance of the 

 Society seventy-four letters, addressed to its Founder, by the 

 late Alexander M'Leay, Esq., Secretary to the Society from 

 1798 to 1825. The letters were accompanied by a photograph 

 from the portrait of Lady Smith, taken by Opie in 1798, signed, 

 and bearing the date of her birth. May 11, 1773. Resolved, 

 that the Special Thanks of the Society be presented to Lady 

 Smith for this very valuable and acceptable donation. 



The President then read a letter from Dr. J. Fayrer, an- 

 nouncing the donation of his magnificent work on the Poisonous 

 Snakes of India ; for which the Special Thanks of the Society 

 were also ordered. 



Dr. Hooker, V.P.L.S., exhibited, from the Kew Museum, a 



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