LTNNEAN SOCIETT OF LONDON. V 



Kerguelen; and Further Notes on the Plants." By H. N. 

 Moseley, Esq., M.A. (In a Letter to Dr. Hooker, Pres. E.S., &c.) 



4. Extract of a Letter, on Ariscema speciosum, &c., from Mr. J. 

 Gammie to Dr. Hooker, dated Darjeeling, May 19, 1874. 



5. Extract of a Letter on the Botany of the Seychelles, dated 

 November 12th, 1874, and addressed to Dr. Hooker. By John 

 Home, Esq., F.L.S., Subdirector of tlie Botanic Gardens, Mau- 

 ritius. 



6. Extract of a Letter from J. B. Balfour, Esq., Botanist to the 

 Expedition to Rodriguez to observe the Transit of Venus, dated 

 Eodriguez, November 3, 1874, and containing Notes on the Bo- 

 tany of the island, addressed to and communicated by Dr. Hooker, 

 Pres. E.S., E.L.S. 



7. " On the Origin of the prevailing Systems of Phyllotaxis." 

 By the Eev. Greorge Henslow, M.A., E.L.S., &c. 



Dr. Hooker, Pres. R.S., exhibited an extensive series of drawings 

 and photographs taken during the ' Challenger ' Expedition ; and 

 Professor Dyer, in illustration of Mr. Moseley's " Notes on the 

 Insects and Plants of Kerguelen," called attention to a photograph 

 showing the Kerguelen Cabbage {Pringlea antiscorhutica, Br.) in 

 different stages of growth. 



February 18th, 1875. 



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



Marcus Manuel Hartog, John Hopkinson, jun., Esq., and 

 Edward P. Eamsay, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



The following papers were read, viz. : — 



1. " On the Structure, Affinities, and Probable Source of the 

 Large Human Fluke (Distoma crassum, Busk)." By Thomas 

 Spencer Cobbold, M.D., F.E.S., F.L.S., &c. 



2. " On the External Anatomy of Tanais vittatus, occurring 

 with Limnoria and Clielura terebrans in excavated Pier-wood." 



