liv PBOCEEDTNGS OF THE 



J. A. Hankey, Esq. Joseph Milligan, Esq. 



Sir J. B. Hearsey, K.C.B. T. N. E. Morson, Esq. 



Eev. J. S. Henslow. Sir E. I. Miircliison. 



Sir W. J. Hooker. Algernon Peckover, Esq. 



J. D. Hooker, M.D., V.P. Charles Eatcliff, Esq. 



Eobert Hudson, Esq. E. C. S. Eoper, Esq. 



T. C. Janson, Esq. S. J. A. Salter, Esq. 



E. Kippist, Libr. L. S. W. W. Saunders, Esq., V.P. 



J. S. Law, Esq. Thomas Thomson, M.D. 



John Lubbock, Esq. John Van Voorst, Esq. 



George MacLeay, Esq. G. C. Wallich, M.D. 



T. W. Mann, Esq. Alfred White, Esq. 



John Miers, Esq. Joseph "Woods, Esq. 



The special Thanks of the Society were likewise directed to be 

 given to Major Salmon, Executor of the late J. D. Salmon, Esq., 

 E.L.S., in return for the bequest, by his late brothei', of a valuable 

 collection of birds' eggs, dried plants, numerous works on natural 

 history, &c. 



Mr. Stevens, E.L.S., exhibited specimens of 25 species of Birds, 

 collected by Mr. A. E. Wallace, at Waigiou and Mysol, near New 

 Guinea. 



The Secretary read a Letter from E. B. Cooke, Esq., E.L.S., 

 &c., dated "Scarborough, June 20th, 1861," and announcing the 

 discovery of Maianthemuin hifolium on the range of hills opposite 

 Harkness, about 4^^ miles from Scarborough, where this rare and 

 beautiful plant grows in the woods, among luxuriant specimens 

 of Trientalis europcea. 



The following Papers were read : — 



1. "On West- African Tropical Orchids;" by John Lindley, 

 Esq., Ph.D., E.E.S., L.S., &c. (See 'Botanical Proceedings,' 

 vol. vi.) 



2. " Note on the Structure of the Anther; " by Daniel Oliver, 

 Esq., E.L.S., Prof. Bot. Univ. Coll. Lond. (See ' Transactions,' 

 vol. xxiii. part 3.) 



