Xl PEOCEEDINGS Or THE LINKEAK SOCIETY OE LONDOK. 



and back again, given by the Cunard Steam Company ; tliat the 

 invitation had been thankfully accepted ; and that Dr. Berthold 

 Seemann, F.L.S., had kindly consented, at the request of the 

 Council, to proceed to America as the representative of the 

 Society. 



•June 16th, 1857. 



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



Eead, first, a " Catalogue of the Hyonenoptera collected at Sara- 

 wak, in the Island of Borneo, Malacca, and Singapore, by Mr. A. 

 R. Wallace;" by Frederick Smith, Esq.; communicated by W. 

 W. Saunders, Esq., F.L.S. (See " Zoological Proceedings," vol, ii. 

 p. 42.) 



Eead, secondly, a "Note on the Occurrence of Rotatoria in 

 Vaucheria ;" by Daniel Oliver, Jun., Esq., E.L.S. 



Eead, thirdly, a Memoir " On the growth and composition of 

 the Ovarium of SipJionodon, Grifi". ;" by Joseph Dalton Hooker, 

 Esq., M.D., F.E.S., F.L.S. (See "Transactions," vol. xxii. p. 133.) 



'Read, fourthly, a Note " On a Monstrous Development in Ha- 

 henaria chlorantha ;" by the Bev. John Stevens Henslow, M.A., 

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



Eead, fifthly, a Note " On a Monstrous Development of the 

 Spike of a species of Banana;" by Sir Eobert H. Schomburgk ; 

 communicated by Greorge Bentham, Esq., F.L.S. (See " Botani- 

 cal Proceedings," vol. ii.) 



Eead, sixthly, a Memoir " On the Greographical Distribution 

 of the Members of the Class Aves ;" by Philip Lutley Sclater, 

 Esq., F.L.S. (See " Zoological Proceedings," vol. ii.) 



