1840.] Linnean Society. lo 



Joseph Francis, Baron Jacquin, Professor of Botany and Che- 

 mistry, and Director of the Imperial Botanic Garden at Vienna, to 

 which appointments he succeeded on the resignation of his father, 

 the celebrated traveller and botanist. He was author of Ecloga 

 Plantarum, a folio work, containing descriptions and coloured figures 

 of the new and rare plants which flowered in the gardens under 

 his care, and also of a valuable work on birds. 



Baron Jacquin was distinguished for his urbanity and kindness, 

 especially to strangers ; and few cultivators of science visited the 

 Austrian capital without partaking of his good offices and hospita- 

 lity. He died at Vienna, on the 10th of December, in the 74th year 

 of his age. 



The President also announced that seventeen Fellows and four 

 Associates had been elected since the last Anniversary. 



It was then moved by the President, and unanimously agreed to 

 by the meeting ; " That the cordial thanks of the Society be given to 

 Dr. Boott on his retirement from the office of Secretarj'-, for the in- 

 cessant attention which he has shown to the duties of that office, and 

 for the ability, zeal, and urbanity with which he has discharged those 

 duties." 



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

 of Norwich was elected President; Edward Forster, Esq., Trea- 

 surer ; John Joseph Bennett, Esq., Secretary ; and Richard Taylor, 

 Esq., Under-Secretary. The following five Fellows were elected 

 into the Council in the room of others going out; viz. Thomas Bell, 

 Esq., George Loddiges, Esq., Gideon Mantell, Esq., LL.D., Richard 

 Horsman Solly, Esq., and Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart. 



June 2. 

 Mr. Forster, V.P., in the Chair. 



William Felkin, Esq., of Nottingham, was elected a Fellow of 

 the Society. 



Mr. George Francis, F.L.S., exhibited a portion of the trunk of 

 the Lepurandra saccidora (Graham, Cat. Bomb. PI. p. 193.), from 

 Western India, of the bark of which sacks and bags are made. 



Mr. Ranch exhibited a specimen of the fruit of Salisburia adianti- 

 folia, which was grown last year in the Imperial Botanic Garden at 

 Vienna. 



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