PROCEEDINGS 



OlF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



November 5th, 1857. 



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



The Secretary announced that during the recess an additional 

 pair of Cabinets for the Society's Collection of Pruits and Seeds 

 had been presented by Thomas Corbyn Janson, Esq., E.L.S. ; and 

 the special thanks of the Society were directed to be presented to 

 Mr. Janson for this useful and acceptable present. 



Dr. Berthold Seemann, E.L.S. , read a detailed report of his 

 visit to Montreal, as the representative of the Linnean Society at 

 the Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science in that city, of which the following is an abstract : — 



Availing himself of the free passage placed at the disposal of 

 the Linnean Society by the liberaKty of the British and North 

 American Eoyal Mail Steam Packet Company, Dr. Seemann em- 

 barked at Liverpool on the 25th of July, on board the ' Persia,' 

 and arrived at 'New York on the 5tli of August. Thence he 

 continued his journey by railway, via Albany and Burlington, to 

 Montreal, which he reached a few days previous to the commence- 

 ment of the meeting, and was most hospitably received, and treated 

 with much consideration by the Local Committee, including Sir 

 AVniiam Logan, F.E.S. (the Chairman), the Lord Bishop of Mon- 

 treal, Professor Dawson, and other distinguished men. On the 

 11th, Dr. Seemann was introduced by Lieut.-Colonel Munro, 



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