LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. Vll 



The following papers were read, viz. : — 



1. " On some new Fishes of India," by Francis Day, Esq.^ 

 Surgeon, Madras Army, F.L.S., &c. 



2. " Enumeration of the Fungi of Ceylon," by the Eev. M. J. 

 Berkeley, F.L.S., and C. E. Broome, Esq., F.L.S.— Part II., con- 

 taining the remainder of the Symenomycetes, with the other esta- 

 blished tribes of Fungi. 



April 17th, 1873. 



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

 John Francis Walker, Esq., M.A., was elected a Fellow. 



The following papers were read, viz. : — 



1. "Notes on the Development of the Perigynium in Carex 

 pulicai'is,''' by "W. It. M'lSTab, M.D. Communicated by the Pre- 

 sident. 



2. " On the Morphology of the Perigynium and Seta in C«re.r," 

 by W. T. Thiselton Dyer, Esq., B.A., F.L.S. 



3. " On Burmese Orchidea? from the Eev. C. P. Parish," by 

 Professor Eeichenbach. Communicated by the President. 



May 1st, 1873. 

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



Professor Carl Nageli, of Munich, was elected a Foreign 

 Member. 



Mr. Daniel Hanbury, F.L.S., exhibited cones, with ripe seeds, 

 of Banksia marcescens, from the garden of M. Thuret, F.M.L.S., 

 at Antibes, South of France. 



The following papers were read, viz. : — 



1. " On the Genus Cinchona,'' by John Elliot Howard, Esq., 

 F.L.S. 



2. " On new Species of European Spiders," by the Eev. O. P. 

 Cambridge. Communicated by H. T. Stainton, Esq., Sec. L.S. 



