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Eeferriuo- to other recorded instances of a similar kind, Mr. 

 Hoo^g mentioned the following account of a communication made 

 to the Academy of Sciences in Paris, January 7th, 1856, by M. 

 Yalencienues. " Note sur les ceufs a plusieurs jaunes contenus 

 dans le meme coque." " Les oeufs renfermant deux jaunes sont 

 tres rares, et ceux a trois jaunes le sont encore plus. M. Valen- 

 ciennes s'en est procure un, et il le fait passer sous les yeux de 

 r Academie. Apres quelques considerations sur les oeufs de poules 

 a deux ou trois jaunes, I'auteur dit qu'il a observe cette duplicite 

 de jaunes dans les ceufs de divers autres oiseaux et de plusieurs 

 moUusques." (Rev. Zool., 2 ser. tom. viii. p. 32.), and concluded 

 by observing that the instance noticed by himself and presented 

 to the Society differed from all others he had found recorded, in 

 the circumstance that the egg in his case contained not merely a 

 doulle yelk, but apparently a second -perfect small egg. 



Read, sixthly, " On the Floral Structure of Osyris peltata ;" by 

 E. de Crespigny, Esq. Communicated by Daniel Hanbury, Esq., 

 E.L.S. 



Mr. Howard, F.L.S., exhibited Specimens of Cinchona Palmdi- 

 ana from Java, and made some remarks upon them. 



Mr. Howard also read a Letter, addressed to himself by C. R. 

 Markham, Esq., on the Cultivation of the various species of Cin- 

 chona in Southern India. 



May 24th, 1861. 



Anniversary Meeting. 

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



This day, the Anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus, and the day 

 appointed by the Charter for the- election of Council and Officers, 

 the President opened the business of the Meeting with the follow- 

 ing Address : — 



GrENTLEMEN, 



The circumstances under which I meet you to-day cannot fail 

 to excite in me feelings so different from those which have ever 



