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as formed in the yellow protoplasm presented appearances -which 

 might be mistaken for nuclei ; but careful investigation always led 

 him to believe that these appearances were deceptive ; and as he 

 obtained clear and well-defined views of all the various stages with 

 fully sufficient magnifying powers to see nuclei if present, he states 

 that he is compelled to deny their existence here. 



A series of illustrative figures accompanied the paper. 



December 4. 

 T. Horsfield, M.D., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Meeting having been specially summoned to supply the 

 vacancy in the Council caused by the death of the Bishop of Norwich, 

 and to elect a President in his stead ; the Vice-President in the Chair 

 opened the business of the day, and the votes having been taken for 

 a Member of Council, Charles Morgan Lemann, M.D., was declared 

 to be elected into the Council. 



The ballot for President having also closed, Robert Brown, Esq. 

 was declared to be elected President. 



December 18. 

 Robert Brown, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The President nominated Thomas Horsfield, M.D., Sir William 

 Jackson Hooker, William Yarrell, Esq., and Nathaniel Wallich, M.D., 

 to be Vice-Presidents for the remainder of the year. 



A letter was read, addressed to the Secretary by John Hogg, Esq., 

 F.L.S., giving an account of a double variety of the Field Scabious, 

 Scabiosa arvensis, L. (^Knautia arvensis, Coult.), a specimen of which 

 he presented to the Society. The specimen was gathered in a 

 stubble-field at Norton in the county of Durham on the 29th of 

 September, and was the only one seen with a double flower, all the 

 other plants in the field presenting the ordinary flower of the species. 



