LINNEAN SOCLETi' OF LONDON, vii 



April 21st, 1857. 

 Thomas Bell, Esq., Presideut, iu the Chair. 



The Ibllovviug alteration iu the Bye-Laws, proposed by the 

 Council on the l7th of March, viz. 



" That in Chapter XIII. Section 1, wherever the word 



'Tuesday' occurs, the word 'Thursday' be substituted in its 



place," 

 having been hung up in the common Meeting-room of the 

 Society, and read by the President at the two last successive 

 General Meetings, was put to the ballot and confirmed by the 

 Fellows. 



The effect of this alteration is to change the days of the 

 Society's Meetings from the first and third Tuesdays to the first 

 and thii'd Thursdays of the month. 



Read, the conclusion of Pi*of. Owen's Memoir " On the Classi- 

 fication of the Mammalia,'''' commenced on the 17th of February. 

 (See " Zoological Proceedings," vol. ii. p. 1.) 



May 5th, 1857. 



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



George David Pollock, Esq., was elected a Fellow, and Prof. 

 J. Van der Hoeven and Dr. Charles Frederic Meisner, Foreign 

 Members. 



Read, first, a Memoir "On tAvo new Genera of Brazilian Plants;" 

 by George Bentham, Esq., F.L.S. (See "Transactions," vol. ii. 

 p. 125.) 



Read, secondly, a Paper " On the Classification of the Warm- 

 blooded Vertebralia-;' by William M'Donald, Esq., M.D., F.L.S. 



Read, thirdly, a "Note on some Suprasoriferous Ferns ;" by 

 Thomas Moore, Esq., F.L.S. (See " Botanical Proceedings," vol. ii.) 



