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gathered by him in a pool near Llyn y Cwn, Caernarvonshire, on 

 June 30, 1828 ; and Dr. Dickie has sent one, for similar division, 

 from Loch of Park, near Aberdeen, where it was gathered by Mr. 

 Sutherland. 



"I do not enter upon a discussion of the characters of these 

 plants, because Messrs. Durieu de Maisonneuve and Gay will 

 publish a paper upon them and other species of Isoetes at an early 

 date. It may, nevertheless, be well to mention that Mr. Gray 

 gives the characters to me as follows : — 

 " '7. lacustris (L.) ; folia stricta atro-viridia ; macrosporae superficie 



obtuse tuberculatse quasi farinacese. 

 " 'I. echinospora (Dur.) ; folia molliora patentissima Isete viridia, 



senescentia e viridi-flava, macrosporse acutiuscule tuberculatse, 



quasi echinatulae.' 



" The ' Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr.' viii. 164 is the place where a 

 distinctive name and character were given to the plant. 



" Tours very tridy, 



" C. C. Babington." 



2. " Observations on some Skulls from Ceylon, said to be those 

 of Veddahs ;" by George Busk, Esq., P.E.S., Sec. L.S. (See 

 ' Zoological Proceedings,' vol. vi.) 



April 3rd, 1862. 



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



Percival Eorster, Esq., Septimus Holmes Godson, Esq., and 

 James Thomson, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Dr. Cogswell, E.L.S., exhibited a fine specimen of gold-bearing 

 quartz, from the neighbourhood of Halifax, Nova Scotia ; and 

 Prof. Tenuant exhibited, on the part of the Government of Nova 

 Scotia, a valuable series of ores and specimens of gold from that 

 Province, and made some observations upon them. 



The following Papers were read : — 



1. " On the three remarkable Sexual Forms of Catasetum tri- 

 dentatum, an Orchid in the possession of the Linnean Society ;" by 

 Charles Darwin, Esq., F.E.S., F.L.S., &c. (See ' Botanical Pro- 

 ceedings,* vol. vi.) 



