LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LOXDOK. 9 



Mr. David Eeekie was proposed as a Fellow. 



Mr. William John Vandenbergh was elected a Tellow. 



Dr. Otto Stapf, F.E.S., Sec.L.S., exhibited male and female 

 specimens of Plagianthus Helmsii, F. . Muell. & Tate, and de- 

 monstrated with the aid of lantern- slides their peculiar leaf and 

 floral structure, pointing out at the same time, that it appears 

 more natural to treat this species together with Plagianthus micro- 

 pJiyllus and P. squamatus as members of si distinct genus for which 

 Mueller's name Halothamnus, originally applied to P. microphylhis, 

 would have to stand. 



Prof. Dendy, Sec.L.S., Mr. E. G-. Baker, and Mr. T. A. Sprague 

 took part in a discussion, and Dr. Stapf replied. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " The Longitudinal Symmetry of Centrospermse." By Prof. 



P. Groom, M.A., P.L.S. 



2. "The Genus NototricJie, Turcz.*' By Aethue W. Hill, 



M.A., P.L.S. 



February 4tb, 1909. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.E.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 21st January, 

 1909, were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Frank Campbell McClellan was admitted a Fellow. 



Mr. William Ambrose Clarke, Mr. Frank Hicks, and Miss Ida 

 Mary Eoper were proposed as Fellows. 



Mr. Paul Eivalz Dupont, Mr. William Herbert Mullens, M.A., 

 LL.M., and Mr. Gurney Wilson Mere severally balloted for and 

 elected Fellows. 



The Chairman announced that sets of the Poi'traits which form 

 part of the Darwin- Wallace volume have been printed in quarto 

 form, and are purchasable by the Fellows at two shillings per set, 

 post-free. 



Prof. W. A. Heedman exhibited microscope-slides prepared by 

 one of his pupils, Mr. W. J. Dakin, now working at Naples, 

 showing striped muscle-fibre in the mantle of Pecten. 



