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ments, containing together three hundred and twenty-five 4to plates. 

 Besides these more important works he also edited an enlarged 

 edition of F. Adolf Heyne's ' Pflanzen Kalender' ; he translated into 

 Latin the text of Schkuhr's 'Enchiridion Botanicum'; and he 

 commenced a ' Species Muscorum Frondosorum ' in continuation 

 of Willdenow's edition of the 'Species Plantarum' of Linnseus. 

 As a descriptive muscologist he is remarkable for his elaborate 

 descriptions, and the multitude and accuracy of his figures. In 

 1815 he became Ordinary Professor of Natural History in the 

 University of Leipzig, resigned his Professorship in 1852, and re- 

 ceived on his retirement the Prussian Order " Pour le m^rite." His 

 election as a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society took place in 

 1823, and he died in his native town on the 2nd of May 1853. 



The Secretary also announced that 1 7 Fellows, 6 Foreign Members, 

 and 2 Associates had been elected since the last Anniversary. 



At the election which subsequently took place, Thomas Bell, 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 : — R. C. Alexander, M.D. ; G. B. 

 Buckton, Esq. ; C. J. F. Bunbury, Esq. ; John Curtis, Esq., and 

 Thomas Thomson, M.D. 



June 6. 



Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The President nominated Francis Boott, Esq., M.D., Robert 

 Brown, Esq., William Spence, Esq., and William Yarrell, Esq., 

 Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year. 



WiUiam Ferguson, Esq., and Thomas Bacon Phillips, Esq,, were 

 elected Fellows. 



Mr. J. D. Salmon, F.L.S., exhibited two specimens of Kestrels, 

 preserved by Mr. Reynolds of Thetford, Norfolk, in which the sub- 

 stance used for colouring the legs had been introduced internally 

 beneath the scales of the tarsi. 



