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place him in the very first rank of geographical botanists. As a 

 geologist he is also much distinguished by his description of Kemi- 

 Lapland and by other important works. He died at Upsal on the 

 7th of April in the present year. His election into the Linnean 

 Society bears date in 1829. 



June 3rd. 



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



A letter was read from Prof. L. C. Treviranus, F.M.L.S., to Dr. 

 Walhch, V.P.L.S., accompanying a present to the Society of a col- 

 lection of original letters addressed by John Christian Daniel Schre- 

 ber to Dr. Albert William Roth, and bequeathed by the latter to 

 his friend Dr. Treviranus, who expresses himself anxious for the 

 preservation of this valuable legacy, and presents it to the Linnean 

 Society in testimony of his respect and attachment. To the packet 

 were also added eleven letters from Xavier Wulfen to Roth ; and the 

 special thanks of the Society were directed to be offered to Prof. 

 Treviranus for his interesting present. 



Mr. Westwood, F.L.S., stated that the large wingless bird which 

 he had mentioned at the meeting of the 17th of Dec, had been found 

 on Cato's Reef, and that a number of living specimens had been 

 procured and sent to Mr. W. S. M'^Leay, F.L.S., at Elizabeth Bay, 

 by whom they had been kept in confinement. 



Mr. Newport, F.L.S., gave verbally a summary of his observations 

 on the Impregnation of the Owim in Amphibia, as contained in a 

 paper ordered for publication in the • Philosophical Transactions.' 



June 17th. 



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



Dr. Adamson, at the request of the President, exhibited several 

 vegetable fossils from Southern Africa, in the neighbourhood of the 

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