l78 Linnean Society. [May 4, 



April 20. 



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



Read a further portion of Dr. Buchanan Hamilton's " Commentary 

 on the Ninth Part of the Hortus Malabaricus of Van Rheede." 



May 4th. 

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



Alfred Evans, Esq., Henry Kingsley, Esq., and Herbert Shelley, 

 Esq., M.B., were elected Fellows ; and Prof. Alexander Braun, Prof. 

 Anders Retzius, and Prof. Francis Unger, were elected Foreign 

 Members. 



Among the presents announced was an extensive collection of 

 dried plants formed in the Upper Himalaya, by Capt. Rd. Strachey 

 and J. E. Winterbottom, Esq., F.L.S,, presented by the Hon. East 

 India Company. 



Mr. Hogg, F.L.S., communicated a letter " On the Artificial in- 

 troduction of a breed of Salmon into the river Swale, and a tributary 

 stream in Yorkshire," which appeared in the ' Durham Advertiser ' 

 for April 16th in the present year, under the signature of Isaac 

 Fisher, together with an unpublished letter from the same gentleman 

 in answer to a request from Mr. Hogg for further information ; and 

 added some observations of his own upon the same subject. From 

 the letter published in the ' Durham Advertiser,' it appeared that 

 Mr. Richard Harrison of Richmond had procured from the river 

 Tees a brood of spawn, taken and milted from the living fish, which 

 he deposited on the 29th of December last in a small tributary of the 

 river Swale. On the 21st of March two of the ova were brought to 

 the house of Mr. Fisher and placed in a vessel of water, the foetal 

 signs were clearly distinguished, and in two days more they became 

 living fish ; he is consequently satisfied that the salmon is now 

 restored to the river Swale, from which it has of late years been 

 banished. In answer to Mr. Hogg's inquiries, Mr. Fisher states 

 further that the ova and milt were obtained in the Tees, according 

 to the directions given by Boccius, Shaw, and " Ephemera," in his 



