LINNBAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. lU 



ditious," by the Eev. John T. Gulick. Communicated by A. 

 E. Walkee, Esq., F.L.S. 



December 5th, 1872. 



Q-eorge Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



George T. Porritt, Esq., was elected a Pellow. 



The following papers were read, viz. : — 



1. " On the Skeleton of the Apteryx" by Thomas Allis, Esq., 

 E.L.S. 



2. " On new and rare British Spiders : 2ad Supplement," by 

 the Eev. O. P. Cambridge, M.A. Communicated by H. T. Stain- 

 ton, Esq., Sec. L.S. 



3. " On two new Species oi Mycoporum, Elotow," by the Eev. 

 W. A. Leighton, B.A., F.L.S. 



4. "Eevision of the Genus Symphoricarpos,'* by Asa Gray, 

 M.D., F.M.L.S. 



December 19th, 1872. 

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



Frank Champneys, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. W. G. Smith, F.L.S., exhibited a fine specimen of the rare 

 Batarrea plialloides, Pers., one of four found in the grounds of the 

 Earl of Egmont at Epsom. Mr. Smith also exhibited a complete 

 series of drawings, in every stage of growth, of the nearly allied 

 genera Clatlirus, Phallus, Cynophallus, and Geaster. 



Mr. T. B. Flower, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of ioSe/ia urens, 

 L., gathered by himself on Kilmiugton Common, near Axmineter, 

 S. Devon, in August last. 



