LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 3 



Dr. Geoege Hendehsox called atteution to a passage iu the 

 Georsjics of Virgil (I. 73 seqq.), in which the poet, after recom- 

 mending a system of fallouing, proposes as au alternative means 

 of restoring the fertility of the soil, that before taking a second 

 grain crop, the soil should be refertilized, by planting it with a 

 leguminous crop. (See p. 45.) 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On some JSTew and Eare Corals from Funafuti." Bv 

 Gilbert C. Bourne, F.L.S. 



2. " The Morphology of the Flowers and Fruits of the Xiflosteum 

 Section of Lonicera.'' By E. A. Xewell Arber, F.G.S. (Commu- 

 nicated by Albert C. Seward, F.L.S.) 



3. "Xote on Cco-cw Tolmiei, Boott.'' Bv C. Baron Clarke, 

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



4. " On the Indian Phalangidae contained in the Indian Museum 

 at Calcutta." Bv Herr C. With of Copenhagen. (Communicated 

 by Dr. H. J. Hansen, F.M.L.S.) 



December ISth, 1902. 



Prof. Sydney H. Vines, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Frederick Ernest Grant and Mr. John Graham Kerr were 

 elected, and Mr. Arthur Disbrowe Cotton and Mr. Alfred William 

 Oke were admitted Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. John Pinches sent for exhibition a sketch-book con- 

 taining about 90 highly finished coloured drawings of British 

 larvae, drawn by Mr. J. Standish. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Notes on some Copepoda from the Faroe Channel." By 

 Thomas Scott, F.L.S. 



2. " The Amphipoda of the ' Southern Cross ' Antarctic 

 Expedition, with remarks on Bipolaritv." Bv Alfred 0. Walker, 

 F.L.S. 



3. " The Deep-Sea Isopod Anuropus branchiatus, Bedd., and 

 some remarks on Bathiinomus gigaateus, A. M.-Edw." By Dr. H. 

 J. Hansen, F.M.L.S. ' 



Notice was given from the Chair that the next Meeting, to be 

 held on Thursday, January 15th, 1903, at 8 p.m., would be made 

 a Special General Meeting to consider the advisabihty of applying 

 for a Supplementarv Charter. 



