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in 1851, under the title of ' Die Erde, die Pflanzen und der Mensch,' 

 to which is prefixed a pleasing portrait of its amiable author, and a 

 biographical sketch from which this notice is chiefly taken. He 

 died on the 28th of April in the present year, in the 64th year of his 

 age. His election as a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society 

 dates from 1843. 



The Secretary also announced that ten Fellows and three Foreign 

 Members had been elected since the last Anniversary. 



At the election which subsequently took place, Robert Brown, 

 Esq., was re-elected President; William Yarrell, Esq., Treasurer; 

 John Joseph Bennett, Esq., Secretary ; and Richard Taylor, Esq., 

 Under-Secretary. The following five Fellows were elected into the 

 Council in the room of others going out, viz. : Charles Daubeny, 

 M.D., William Henry Fitton, M.D., George Robert Gray, Esq., 

 John Reeves, Esq., and James Francis Stephens, Esq. 



June 1st. 

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

 John Braxted Hicks, M.D., was elected a Fellow. 



Read a paper " On two new genera of Fungi." By the Rev. M. 

 J. Berkeley, F.L.S. 



After some preliminary observations on the gratification attendant 

 on the satisfactory determination of the synonyms of the earlier 

 writers, and on the advantages to be derived from an attentive study 

 of their works, particularly (as regards Fungi) those of Micheli, 

 Schmidel, Miiller and Battarra, Mr. Berkeley proceeded to call the 

 attention of the Society to two subjects, the one figured by Battarra 

 and the other by Bulliard. The figure of Battarra is contained in 

 his " Fungorum Agri Ariminensis Historia," t. 40, and represents a 

 Phallus which some later writers have referred to Phallus caninus, 

 Huds., although at first sight it bears but a remote resemblance to 

 that species. Several specimens of it were found, according to Bat- 

 tarra, in the neighbourhood of Rome, and he describes them as 

 having the volva dirty white, coriaceous, and filled with a mucila- 

 ginous substance, as in the other species of Phallus. From this 

 arose a club-shaped cellular receptacle, hollow within, the upper part 

 being even and solid within (meaning probably that it was imper- 

 forate), and covered with a crust which was red when the fungus 



