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will be graciously pleased so to temper the severity of this great 

 calamity, that Toiu- Majesty may be enabled to find the truest 

 consolation vmder affliction, and the best support iii its endurance, 

 in the exercise of the privileges and the duties of your high station, 

 and in the continuance of that parental and superiatending care, 

 which is so well calculated to render Tour Majesty's Royal House 

 a blessing to the nation, and an example to the other kingdoms of 

 the earth." 



" For the President and Council of the Linnean Society, 

 (Signed) " GtEOEge Bentham, President." 



Mr. Bates exhibited specimens of Lepidopterous Insects, in 

 illustration of his Paper " On the Insect-Pauna of the Amazon 

 Valley," read on the 21st of November, 1861. 



The President read a Letter addressed to himself by Clement E. 

 Markham, Esq., of the India Office, forwarding for presentation 

 to the Society four pamphlets, printed for the use of those en- 

 trusted with the cultivation of Cinchoncs in India and Ceylon : — 

 viz. 1. Eeport on the Cultivation of the Quina-tree in Java (trans- 

 lated from the ' Bonplandid') : 2. Translations of Dr. Karsten's 

 work on New Granada Barks, and Poeppig's on those of Huanuco : 



3. Botanical descriptions of the species of Cinchona now growing 

 in India and Ceylon ; from the works of WeddeU, Howard, &c. : 



4. Mr. Spruce's Beport on the ' Bed Bark ' region ; and requesting 

 that the President would mention to the Society how successful the 

 introduction of the Cinchona-trees into the Neilgherry Hills has 

 hitherto been. 



" My last accounts," he says, " are dated November 30th, when 

 the plants were in very fine condition ; many of them in the most 

 luxuriant state of health. Average growth of the month 2^ inches ; 

 largest of the plants 3 feet 9 inches high. 

 " The number of plants was as foUows : — 



C. succir libra 4762 



C. Calisaya 6 



C. nitida 917 



C. micranfha ].228 



C. Peruviana 64 



C Paliudiana 175 



Species without name 314 



Total 7466 plants. 



