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The General Secretary exhibited the Linaean MS. ' Spolia 

 botanica ' dated 1729, to show that the name Linncea had been 

 scratched out, and Htulbeckia substituted, in compliment to Prof. 

 Oluf Eudbeck the Younger, in whose house he was then living as 

 tutor. This shows that Linnaeus had early selected the plant 

 which now bears his name, for he mentions two localities in 

 Stenbrohult parish where it occurs, and that the choice of this 

 plant to bear his name was not made when gathering specimens 

 at Tugganforsen in Lyksele Lappmark. 



After this conclusion had been arrived at, and the erasure and 

 substituted name shown to several Fellows on the 10th March, 

 1910, the discovery was made that Dr. E. Ahrling had recorded the 

 same, which had been overlooked as being in a note in his ' Carl 

 von Linnes Uiigdomsskrifter,' i. pp. 92-93, of which the following 

 is a translation : — '• As regards the name or word Eudbechia just 

 employed, there is this peculiarity, that in the original manuscript 

 the word was evidently written there after erasure, and of the 

 first writing there remains a perfectly plain L such as Linnaeus 

 usually wrote, altered to E. Perhaps this suggestion may be ven- 

 tured, that Linna3us first wrote Linna'a, when he meant to keep 

 these records to himself, but afterwards, when he dedicated them 

 to Prof. L. Eoberg (into whose hands however the manuscript 

 perhaps never came), he considered himself bound to protect 

 himself against people's ridicule." 



Mr. H. W. Monckton and the Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing raised 

 questions, which were replied to by the exhibitor. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Eight months' Entomological collecting in the Seychelles." 



By H. Scott, E.L.S. 



2. " Some points in the Anatomy of the Larva of TijmJa 



maxiraa ; a contribution to our knowledge of the respira- 

 tion and circulation in Insects." Bj' J. M. Bkown, F.L.S. 



May 24th, 1910. 

 Anniversary Meeting. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, M.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 5tli May, 1910, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Before opening tlie business of the Meeting, the President spoke 

 of the incalculable loss which the Society, in common with the 

 whole Empire, had suffered by the death of His late Majesty 

 King Edward, Patron of the Society. The grief universally felt 

 had found expression in every quarter ; there was one remark 

 however, which he, as President of the Society, would like to add. 



