LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LOS^DON. 



Kippist, R., Esq. Seaman, B. C P., Esq. 



Knox, A. E., Esq., M.A. Seemann, B., Esq., Ph.D. 



Lee, J., Esq., LL.D. Sheppard, Major E., R A. 



LyeU, Sir C, M.A., D.C.L. Solly, R. H., Esq. 



Miers, J., Esq. Spence, W., Esq. 



Morson, T. N. R„ Esq. Tagart, Rev. E. 



Murchison, Sir R. I., D.C.L. Taylor, R., Esq. 



Peckover, A., Esq. Thomson, T., M.D. 



Reeve, L., Esq. Van Voorst, J., Esq. 



Roots, S., Esq. Wakefield, R., Esq. 



Salmon, J. D., Esq. Ward, N. B., Esq. 



Salter, S. J. A., M.B. White, Alfred, Esq. 



Salter, T., Esq. Wight, R., M.D. 



Salter, T. B., M.D. Wilkinson, J. S. C, Esq. 



Saunders, W. W., Esq. Yarrell, W., Esq. 



June 2nd, 1857. 

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

 Freeman Eoper, Esq., was elected a Eellow. 



Eead, first, a Note " On the irregularity of the return of Swal- 

 lows and other vernal migratory birds in the present year;" 

 by Thomas Forster, Esq., M.B., E.L.S. (See " Zoological Pro- 

 ceedings," vol. ii. p. 40.) 



Read, secondly, " Additional Eemarks on an Organ observed in 

 the Wings and Halteres of Insects ;" by John Braxted Hicks, 

 Esq., M.D., E.L.S. (See " Transactions," vol. xxii. p. 141.) 



Eead, thirdly, a Paper " On some peculiar Structiires in the 

 Antennae of Insects;" by John Braxted Hicks, Esq., M.D., 

 F.L.S. (See " Transactions," vol. xxii. p. 147.) 



The President announced that the Local Committee at Mont- 

 real had, through their Chairman, Sir W. E. Logan, invited the 

 Linnean Society to depute a representative to the approaching 

 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science in that city, and had placed at the disposal of the Society 

 for that purpose one of two free passages to New York or Boston 



