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odoriferous smell. On these species Mr. Miers proposes to fovind a 

 genus under the name of Symphyostemon ; agreeing with Solenome- 

 lus in the complete union of its stamina, but differing by its deeply 

 cleft style and the shape of its coroUa. He thinks also that several 

 species added to Sisyrinchium by Sprengel, such as S. coUinum, S. 

 filiforme and S. flexuosum, should be discarded from it, and believes 

 that the entire genus requires a revision, for which he regrets that 

 he does not possess sufficient materials. 



Read also a " Notice of a nevi'^ species oi Araucaria from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Moreton Bay ; and of the Germination of Nuytsia flori- 

 bunda," in a letter from J. C. Bidwell, Esq., to R. Taylor, Esq., 

 Under Sec. L.S. 



January 18, 1842. 

 R. Brown, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary reported that the Council held this day had agreed 

 to the following resolution, viz. 



" That notice be given at the General Meeting this evening that 

 the Election of a Clerk, Librarian and Housekeeper will take place 

 on the 15 th of February ; the Chair to be taken at half-past seven 

 o'clock in the evening, and the Ballot to close at nine." 



He further reported that the Candidates were Charles M. Lemann, 

 M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and 

 Mr. Richard Kippist, Assistant Clerk and Librarian of the Society. 



Edward Solly, Jun., Esq., the Rev. Henry Hawkes, B.A., and 

 Dr. William Henry Brown, were elected Fellows. 



l"lie Vice-President in the Chair then proposed, that in consequence 

 of the recent death of Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., V.P.L.S., and 

 in consideration of his long connexion with the Society and emi- 

 nent services to natural history, the meeting should adjourn, which 

 was unanimously agreed to. 



February 1 . 

 The Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. John William Griffith was elected a Fellow, and Mr. Lovell 

 Reeve an Associate. 



