PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Mr. A. S. ITinsT.— Report on the Aranea;, Opiliones, and 

 Pseudoscorpioues from tlie Seychelles. (Communicated, 

 w ith two following, by Prof. J. Stanley Gabdineb, F.E.S., 

 F.L.S.) 



Mr. G. A. BouLENGEB, F.R.S. — List of the Batrachians and 

 Iveptiles obtained by Prof. Stanley Gardiner on his Second 

 Expedition to the Seychelles and Aldabra. 



Miss Maet Jane liAXiiBUN. — On the Marine Brachyura 

 from the Indian Ocean collected in 1905. 



March 2nd, 1911. 



Dr. D. II. Scott, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 16th Febi-uary, 

 1911, were read and confirmed. 



Mr. George Herbert Wailes was proposed as a Fellow, and 

 Dr. Hans Driesch, Prof. Eichard von Hertwig, Geh.-Hofrat Prof. 

 Georg Klebs, Prof. Sergej Gawrilowitscb Nawaschin, Dr. Eugdne 

 Penard, Prof. Johann Wilhelm Spengel, and Prof. Edmund 

 Beecher Wilson as Foreign Members. 



Mr. C. E. Salmon showed British specimens of Lejpidium 

 nec/lectum, Thell., and L. densijlorum, Schrad. Mr. F. N. ^Villiams, 

 Mr. E. G. Baker, and Dr. O. Stapf discussed the probable origin 

 of these forms, and Mr. Salmon replied. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes showed a specimen of Griffithsia fjlohifera, 

 J. Ag., from Milford Haven ; Mr. Cotton remarked upon the 

 spread of some of these alien algae in our waters. 



Mr. H. W. MoNCKTON, Treas. & V.-P., showed a series of 

 lantern-slides from photographs taken during his visit last autumn 

 to Sweden as a delegate on behalf of the Society to the Inter- 

 national Congress of Geologists, especially those taken at Uppsala, 

 some of which showed places connected \A"ith Carl von Linnc, 

 including a front view of his house in tlie old Botanic Garden. 



Mr. H. R. Darlington commented on the modern use in Sweden 

 of the German prefix " von." 



The General Secretary then showed a supplementary series of 

 lantern-slides, chiefly from old prints, concerning the history of 

 the old botanic garden. He stated that when Linne and Eost'n 

 bad exchanged Chairs in January 1742, and the former had 

 thereby become prefect of the garden, he took immediate steps to 

 rearrange the garden, provide glass-houses, and rebuild the house 

 attached, which belonged to the prefect. The last slide showed 

 the old poplar close to the entrance, the only specimen which can 

 be regarded as coeval with Linne, inasmuch as the laurels and a 

 few other veterans uad been transported to the new botanic 

 garden early in the nineteenth century. 



