LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON". 3 



The General Seci'etaiy exhibited a copy of the second edition 

 of Hudson's 'Flora Anglica,' 1771, on behalf of Mr. Alexander 

 H. Steyenson, of Dundee, who had picked up the volume in a 

 dilapidated state on a bookstall. It contains numerous notes by 

 Eev. William Kirby, an early Fellow of the Society, who spent 

 his entire clerical life of 68 years in the parish of Barham, a few 

 miles from Ipswich in the direction of Saxmundham. Many of 

 these notes relate to localities in the neighbourhood, recorded in 

 1797, judging from the few which are dated. 



Dr. A. B. Eendle exhibited an abnormal specimen of Eucalyptus 

 scdmonopldoia, F. Muell., from West Australia, of two stems 

 horizontally connected by new growth. The Rev. J. Gerard, S.J., 

 who referred to similar cases in the yew (Taxus baccata), and the 

 Eev. G. Henslow commented on this exhibition. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Origin of the Di-trimerous Floral Whorls of certain 



Dicotyledons." By the Rev. G. Henslow, INI. A., F.L.S. 



2. " Unrecorded Acari from IN'evv Zealand." By Albert D. 



Michael, F.L.S. 



3. " On j^nigmatistes africanus, a new genus and species of 



Diptera." By R. W. C. Shelford, F.L.S. 



November 21st, 1907. 



Prof. W. A, Herdman, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 7th November, 

 1 907, were i-ead and confirmed. 



The following persons were proposed as Fellows : — Mr. James 

 Masson Hector, B.Sc. (Aberd.), and Mr. Charles Francis Massy 

 Svvynnerton ; also as Associate, Mr. Herbert Clifton Chadwick. 



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

 and Dr. John Tanner were elected Fellows. 



Mr. C. W. Anderson exhibited a specimen of a light-giving larva 

 brought by him from near the boundary of British Guiana with 

 Brazil, exhibiting when Hving a ruby light in its head, and a 

 double row of phosphorescent spots along the body, two on each 

 segment. These lights were not intermittent but glowed con- 

 tinuously. This presumed coleopterous larva was called " Maca- 

 doub " by the natives, and is not uncommon in the region named. 



Prof. A. Deudy, Sec.L.S., in opening the discussion, called 

 attention to the paper by Mr. Andrew Murray in the Journal of 

 the Society, Zoology, vol. x. (186S) pp. 74-82, with a later note 

 by Mr. Roland Trimen, in the same volume, pp. 503-4 issued in 

 1870. Other speakers were, the General Secretary, Dr. Murie. 

 Dr. Caiman, Mr. C. J. Gahan (a visitor), Mr. H. N. Ridley, and 

 were replied to by Mr. Anderson. 



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