166 Linnean Society. [March 7j 



VesicuUferee, that its true position will be with them. The Vesi- 

 culifera composita, Hass., Ann. Nat. Hist. x. p. 394, is identical with 

 Meloseira varians, Agardh. 



The paper concludes with some remarks on the various uses of 

 the freshwater Confervce. 



February 21. 

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



Frederick Blundstone White, M.D., and Edward Doubleday, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope, M.A., F.L.S., &c., exhibited an extensive 

 collection of engraved Portraits of Linneeus, accompanied by a hst of 

 such as had fallen under his observation, and notices of the more 

 important among them. 



March 7. 



The Lord Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 



Thomas Corbyn Janson, Esq. and William Hammond Solly, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows. 



J. O. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., presented specimens of the aerial 

 processes of the roots of Sonneratia acida, L., sent by Mr. Templeton 

 from Ceylon, and described by him as affording a wood of an ex- 

 tremely light and close texture, admirably adapted for lining insect- 

 boxes, on account of the facility with which it admits, and the tena- 

 city with which it retains, the finest pins. 



Read a continuation of Mr. Griffith's memoir " On the Ovulum of 

 Santalum," &c. 



