LEfNEAN SOCIETY OE LONDON. I5 



geographical species, now found to be more widely spread than 

 was formerly realised. 



The Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing, F.E.S., F.L.S., exhibited photo- 

 graphs and drawings. 



Photographs (by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain of Tunbridge Wells) 

 of a much contorted tree, growing in the grounds of Oakhurst, 

 Mount Ephraira, the residence of Mr. Thomas Jones-Gibb 

 Duncanson, F.Z.S. 



Stem 5 feet 6 inches high to the bulge of a supposed graft, 

 there swelling from a girth of 2 feet 2^ inches to 4 feet 1| inches. 



Dr. Eobert Plot, in the 'Natural History of Oxfordshire,' chap. 6, 

 p. 174, alluded to by Loudon, says : — 



"In Willoirs, and some other of the softer Woods, the upper- 

 most Boughs are commonly fasciatcd, but the best of the kind I 

 ever yet saw, was the Top-branch of an Ash, which I met with at 

 Bisseter, not only fasciated, but most uniformly wreathed two or 

 three times round." 



May 29th, 1915. 



Anniversary Meeting, 



Mr. Horace W. Moxckton, Treasurer & Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 6th May, 1915, 

 were read and confirmed. 



The Vice-President in the Chair then alluded to the President's 

 absence, and moved the following Address, which was unanimously 

 adopted, the Fellows present rising in their places : — 



" The FelloAvs of the Linnean Society in Anniversary 

 Meeting assembled, desire to express their profound sym- 

 pathy with the President and bis family in the terrible 

 bereavement sustained by them in the death of Lieutenant 

 EoxALD William Poulton Palmee, who had lost his life in 

 Flanders while fighting for his country." 



Colonel Masters John Godfery, Miss Lilian Lyle, and 

 Mr. Frederick George Spring, were proposed as Felloe s. 



The Treasurer laid his Annual Statement of Accounts before 

 the Meeting, and explained the items of Eeceipts and Pavraents • 

 the same was received and adopted. (See pp. 18-20.) 



