LINNEAir SOCIETY OF LONDON. Ill 



The following paper was read : — 



"On the Classification of the Animal Kingdom." By Profes- 

 sor Huxley, Sec. E.S., F.L.S, 



December 17th, 1874. 

 Prof. Allman, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



James Deane, Esq., and "William A. Shoolbred, Esq., were 

 elected Fellows. 



Mr. Hanbury, Treas. L.S., exhibited, from the garden of the 

 Palazzo Orengo, near Mentone, flowering branches of two re- 

 markable species of Kleinia, \erj similar in appearance — the K. 

 odora, Eorskahl, from Arabia, and K. anteuphorhium, DeC, from 

 South Africa, species rarely seen in flower in our plant-houses, but 

 which flower freely at Mentone in the open air. ^ 



Dr. Prior, P.L.S., exhibited, on the part of W. Surtees, Esq., 

 a flowering branch of the Glastonbury Thorn from Trinfield, 

 Taunton. 



Mr, Jackson, A.L.S., exhibited, from the Museum of the Eoyal 

 Grardens, Kew, a beautiful series of photographs of South- African 

 scenery, from paintings by T. Baines, Esq. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Habits of Bees, Wasps, and Ants." By Sir John 

 Lubbock, Bart., M.P., E.E.S., F.L.S., «fec. 



2. " Diagnoses of New Genera and Species of Hydroida." By 

 Dr. Allman, F.R.S., Pres. L.S., «fec. 



January 21st, 1875. 

 Prof. Allman, M D., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Captain F. Henderson, AUan James Hewitt, Esq., Duncombe 



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