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of Count Sternberg, in a work entitled ' Reliquiae Haenkeanse.' 

 Count Sternberg was distinguished for his mrbanity, hospitality, and 

 an eager desire to promote every useful work. He left his collections 

 and books of Natural History to the Museum already mentioned. 



Among the Associates are the following : 



Mr. John Hunneman. — Mr. Hunneman having been long the me- 

 dium of communication between the botanists of this country and 

 those of Germany, Switzerland, and Russia, our collections have 

 been enriched through his means with a vast variety of new and in- 

 teresting plants, A curious Mexican genus, belonging to the natural 

 family Papaveracea, bears his name, and commemorates the services 

 rendered by him to science. 



Mr. George Penny. — He was well acquainted with the plants 

 which he successfully cultivated, and was the author of the ' Hortus 

 Epsomensis', and of several papers on Garden Botany in Mr. Loudon's 

 Gardener's Magazine. 



Mr. William Weston Young made the drawings for Mr. Dillwyn's 

 valuable work on British Confervse, and a series of drawings of Bri- 

 tish birds now in the possession of Mr. Yarrell. 



The President also announced that twenty Fellows, five Foreign 

 Members, and two Associates had been elected since the last An- 

 niversary. 



At the election, which subsequently took place, the Lord Bishop of 

 Norwich was re-elected President ; Edward Forster, Esq., Treasurer ; 

 Francis Boott, M.D., Secretary; and Richard Taylor, Esq., Under- 

 Secretary. The following five Fellows were elected into the Council 

 in the room of others going out, viz. W. J. Burchell, Esq., J. W. 

 Lubbock, Esq., Hugh Duke of Northumberland, John Forbes Royle, 

 M.D., and William Yarrell, Esq. 



June 4. 

 Edward Forster, Esq., V.P. in the Chair. 



Mr. George William Francis was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Read, " Further Observations on the Spongillafluviatilis, with some 

 remarks on the nature of the Spongia Marina." In a letter to the 

 Secretary, by John Hogg, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. 



