LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. Ixiii 



March 6th, 1862. 



George Beniham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Albany Hancock, Esq., Thomas Hyde Hills, Esq., and Eobert 

 McLachlan, Esq., were elected Eellows. 



Dr. Cobbold, E.L.S., communicated the substance of a Paper, 

 entitled, " Histological Observations on the Eye of the Cod-fish 

 {Morrhua vulgaris), with especial reference to the Choroid Gland 

 and the Cones of the Retina." (See ' Zoological Proceedings,' 

 vol. vi.) 



March 20th, 1862. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The Right Hon. Lord Lilford, W. H. Flower, Esq., St. George 

 Jackson Mivart, Esq., and Benjamin Leadbeater, Esq., were elected 

 Fellows. 



Read, 1st, the following Letter from Professor Babington, 

 E.R.S. & L.S., accompanying specimens of Isoetes ecliinospora, 

 Durieu, from the neighbourhood of Llanberis, for the Society's 

 British Herbarium : — 



" To the Secretary of the Linnean Society of London. 



" Cambridge, 22nd February, 1862. 



" Mt dear Sib, — Will you have the kindness to place before 

 the Linnean Society, and afterwards deposit in the British Her- 

 barium, the enclosed specimen of Isoetes echinospora, Dur., named 

 by him. I am not able to state the exact spot near Llanberis 

 (Caernarvonshire) where I gathered the plant in 1847, but believe 

 it to have been in the Lower Lake. I am sorry that the specimen 

 is not finer ; but all the specimens that I have seen are smaller 

 than those of I. lacustris, and the best that I possessed were sent 

 to Prance. 



" Mr. W. Wilson, the celebrated muscologist, has furnished M. 

 Durieu and myself with a specimen between us of the same species, 



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