LIXXEAX SOCIETY OF LONDON. 71 



June 20th, 1907. 



Prof. AV. A. Hebdman, P.E.S., President, in the Chair, 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 6th June, 1907, 

 \^ere read, and confirmed. 



Mr. Geoffrey Watkin Smith, Mr. Montagu Austin Phillips, and 

 Mr. Frederick Ambrose Gardiner were admitted Fellows. 



Mr. Walter Henry Baker, Mr. Keginald Evelyn Child Beale, 

 and Dr. John Tanner were proposed as Fellows. 



Mr. Balph Sneyd Pearson was elected a Fellow. 



The President read a letter congratulating Sir J. D. Hookee on 

 his sixty-five years of Fellowship of the Linnean Society, and the 

 approaching completion of his ninetieth year, which was signed 

 by the Fellows present, for transmission to the veteran botanist. 



An acknowledgment from the principal secretary of H.M. the 

 King of Sueden, in reply to the telegram sent on the 6th June 

 on the occasion of his golden wedding, was read by the General 

 Secretary. 



The Rev. T. E. E. Stebbing, F.E.S., F.L.S., referred to the 

 recent Eeception (7th June) and hoped that the lectures delivered 

 then would be printed in the ' Proceedings ' ; a reply was given by 

 the President, and further remarks made by Mr. J. C. Shenstone. 



3Ir. W. C. WoKSDELL, F.L.S., exhibited some remarkable cases 

 of carpellody of the inner stamens of Papaver convnutatum, selected 

 from a bed of plants at Kew so labelled, with one specimen of 

 P. orientule showing the same peculiarity of separate carpels sui'- 

 rounding the capsule. 



Dr. Scott and Mr. J. C. Shenstone spoke on this exhibit. 



The GENEEAii Secretary exhibited two photographs he had 

 received that morning from Prof, yak Leersum: of Leiden, of two 

 pages from the audience book of Herman Boerhaave, showing the 

 signature of Carl Linnaeus on eachj^^ith many other signatures of 

 men who afterwards became famous. 



Dr. A. B. Eendle mentioned the celebrated letter of Boerhaave 

 introducing Linnaeus to Sloane, which was now on view at the 

 British Museum (Natural History). 



The following papers were read and discussed : — 



The late Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.E.S., F.L.S.— " On the 

 Distribution of Conifers in China and neighbouring 

 Countries." 



Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A., F.L.S. — " Introduction, 

 part II., of the ' Sealai'k ' Expedition." 



