LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDOiN. 



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" On a Botanical Expedition to Pokieu." By S. T. Dunn, 

 F.L.S. 



" Alcyonaria from the Indian and Pacific Oceans." (Ab- 

 stract.) By Miss EuTH M. Harbison. (Communicated 

 by Pi-o£. Gilbert C. Bourne, D.Sc, F.L.S.) 



February 20tb, 1908. 



Lieut.-Col. Prain, CLE., LL.D., F.E.S., V.-P., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 6th February, 1908, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Miss May Evehna Bainbridge, B.Sc, Miss Emmeline Crocker, 

 Mr. William Holmes Burrell, and Mr. James William OUver were 

 admitted Fellows. 



Mr. Hamilton Herbert Charles James Druce, F.Z.S., F.E.S., 

 Mr. Walter Thomas Haydon, and Mr. John Herbert Milton, were 

 proposed as Fellows. 



The Vice-President in the Chair announced that there were two 

 vacancies in the list of Foreign Members owing to the death of 

 Prof. Frans Reinhold Kjellman and of Prof. Jose Vicente Barboza 

 du Bocage. 



The Chairman also stated that a celebration of the Jubilee of 

 the presentation of the Darwin-Wallace joint essay on 1st July, 

 1858, would take place on the 1st July next ; the details were 

 not complete, but it was intended that an afternoon meeting and 

 an evening reception should take place on the day named, with the 

 award of copies of a special medal, and subsequent publication of 

 the proceedings of the celebrations. Subscriptions were invited to 

 defray the cost 



Mr. T. Ernest Waltham exhibited stereoscopic photographs of 

 Alpine flowers in their natural colours, some of the slides being 

 also shown by means of the lantern on the screen. Mr. E. Morton 

 Middleton, Mr. Arthur W. Sutton, Dr. A. B. Eendle, and the 

 Vice-President in the Chair, made some observations, and 

 Mr. Waltham replied. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Experiments with Wild Types of Tuber-bearing Solanums." 



By Arthur W. Sutton, F.L.S. 



2. " The Life-history and Larval Habits of Tiger-Beetles 



(Cicindehdae)." By Dr. V. E. Shelford. (Communicated 

 by the Eev. Canon W. W. Fowler, M.A., F.L.S.) 



