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also of 'Cent. I. Plantariun/ showing the alterations in 

 naming Dianthus sujyerbus and its final shape in the 

 ' Amoenitates Academicfe,' iv. p. 272. 



(/) Manuscripts, including ' Iter lapponicum,' his Auto- 

 biography, ' Iter dalecarlicum,' ' Spolia botanica ' of 

 1729; works on assaying, ' Systema morborum,' 

 walking-stick, pencil-case, seals, &c. 



(g) Manuscript list of his Herbarium in 1755, with a 

 memoir on the same, prepared for the 200th anni- 

 versary of Linnseus's birth. Books showing additional 

 notes. 



{h) Letters written by Linn^us (a) to Ehret, the botanic 

 draughtsman, and (b) to Haller, the latter a short 

 but interesting letter which healed the breach between 

 the two. (Latter lent by the General Secretary.) 



(i) Carved rhinoceros horn, mentioned in ' Amoenitates 

 Academicpe,' iv. p. 234, and figured in the life of 

 Sir J. E. Smith, ii. p. 230. 



2. Dr. Tempest Anderson, F.L.S. 



Photographs showing growth of vegetation since the 

 eruption of 1902 in St. Vincent. 



3. Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.R.S. 



Model of the skull and mandible of Prozenglodon atrox, 

 Andrews, one of the forms intermediate between the 

 Oreodont Carnivora and the Zeuglodonts. The three- 

 rooted premolars and molars and the comparatively 

 forward situation of the nostrils are the chief primitive 

 characters. Collected by Mr. H, J. L. Beadnell in the 

 Middle Eocene beds of the Fayum, Egypt. 



4. Miss Margaret Benson, D.Sc, F.L.S. , and Prof. F. W. Oliver, 



F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 Preparations of the Palasozoic Seeds, Lagenostoma 

 ovoides and Physostoma elegans, showing bodies pre- 

 sumed to be Spermatozoids. 



5. Mr. A. D. Darbishire, M.A. 



Specimens showing the result of crossing diflerent 

 varieties of the culinary Pea, Pisum sativum, as 

 illustrative of Mendelian phenomena of inheritance. 

 During the evening some actual cross-fei'tilizations 

 were made. 



6. Prof. A. Dendy, D.Sc, Sec.L.S. 



{a) Microscopic preparations of the Egg-shell of Ooperi- 

 patus oviparios, Dendy, showing the sculptured pattern. 



{b) Microscopic preparation of the Integument of Ooperi- 

 p>atus viridimaculatus, Dendy. 



(c) Microscopic prepaiutions of Fossil Sponge-Spicules from 

 the 0am aru Siliceous Earth of New Zealand. Pre- 

 pared by H. Grayson. 



