PROCEEDINGS 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDON, 



November 3rd, 1859. 



Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Alexander Carte Avas elected a Fellow. 



The special thanks of the Society were directed to be presented 

 to J. J. Bennett, Esq., F.E.S., Secretary of the Society, for his 

 valuable donation of Casts from the Busts of Sir J. E. Smith, Sir 

 Joseph Banks, Bart., the Hon. Shute Barington, Bishop of Dur- 

 ham, and of John Hunter, Esq. 



Mr. Joseph "Woods, E.L.S., exhibited specimens of Leersia 

 oryzoicles, discovered by himself in September last, in a new 

 locality, at Tillingbourne, near Shalford, Surrey. 



Mr. Busk, E.R. & L.S., exhibited specimens oi Pezisa cerurjinom, 

 gathered by himself, in Bolton Woods. 



Read, first, " Descriptions of new species of Hymenopterous 

 Insects, collected by A. R. "Wallace, Esq., in Celebes;" by 

 Frederick Smith, Esq. Communicated by W. W. Saunders, Esq., 

 F.R.S., V.P.L.S. (See Zoological Proceedings," vol. v. p. 57.) 



Read, secondly, " On the Zoological Geography of the Malay 

 Archipelago ; " by A. R. Wallace, Esq. Communicated by Charles 



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