PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1895-96.) 



November 7th, 1895. 



Mr. Charles Barox Claree, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. George Massee was admitted a Fellow of the Society. 



Several volumes of Crjptogamic exsiccata recently received 

 from Madame "Weddell as a bequest trom her late husband, a 

 Foreign Member of the Society, were shown, and some remarks 

 made thereon by the Botanical Secretary. 



A portrait of the French Naturalist Gruillaume Rondelet, Pro- 

 fessor of Anatomy and Chancellor of the University of Mont- 

 pellier, 1545, recently presented to the Society by Dr. H. 

 Woodward, F.R.S., was exhibited by the Zoological Secretary, 

 who gave a brief account of his life and work, supplemented by 

 remarks from the President. 



Mr. C. T. Druery exhibited and made remarks on a Scolopen- 

 drium raised by Mr. E. J, Low^e, bearing archegonia and antheridia 

 upon the fronds, constituting a more ad^'anced please of apospory 

 than any previously noted. Some additional reuiarks were made 

 by Mr. G-eorge Murray. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters exhibited specimens of the fruit of 

 JPyrus Sorhus, Aheria cqffra, and small fruits of Cocos australis, 

 Irom the gardens of Mr. Thomas Hanbury at La Mortola, Mentone, 

 and some larger fruits of Cocos australis from Naudin's garden at 

 Aulibes, Alpes maritimes. 



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