lO PEOCEEDIKGS OF THE 



April 2nd, 1903. 

 Prof. SxDjSrEy H. Viis^es, E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The General Secretary alluded to the account of the Linnean 

 Collections, given on the hundredth Aniversary of the Society, 

 24th May, 1888, and the statement that an interchange of speci- 

 mens from the herbarium of Linnaeus, about 1785, for Banksian 

 material, incorporated in the Smithian herbarium, had taken place 

 (Proc. 1887-88, p. 28), but that the actual exchanges could not be 

 traced. 



During the autumn of 1902, when examining some unbound 

 letters and other MSS. which belonged to Sir J. E. Smith, a small 

 octavo note-book was found [shown to the Meeting] headed 

 " Desiderata Banksiana, Jan. 1785," and consisting of seventeen 

 leaves, with names of plants in double columns, and on the last 

 leaf a note in pencil thus : " circa 2000 ; Peb. 9th, communicata 

 ex H. L. patris 81." Certain entries were obliquely marked down 

 in red ink, and these being counted proved to be equal in number 

 with those stated in the last-mentioned note, which were com- 

 municated "ex H[erbario] L[iun8ei] patris." A few of these have 

 been compared with the Linnean herbarium, to make certain that 

 only duplicates were parted with by Smith in this exchange, by 

 which, as has been previously stated, "... the herbaria of Banks 

 and Smith were enriched at the expense of the Linnean herbarium " 

 (Proc. 1887-88, p. 28, footnote). 



Mr. E. M. Holmes and Mr. P. N. "Williams made some remarks, 

 and Mr. B. Daydon Jackson replied. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " A List of Marine Algye collected by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner 

 at the Maldive and Laccadive Islands." By Mrs. A. Gepp (Ethel 

 S. Barton). (Communicated by Mr. A. Gepp, M.A., P.L.S.) 



2. " The Comparative Anatomy of Cyatheacese and other Perns." 

 By D. T. Gwynne Vaughan. (Communicated by Dr. D. H. Scott, 

 Sec.L.S.) (See p. 47.) - 



April 16th, 1903. 



Eev. Thomas E. E. Stebbing, P.E.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Laurence Lewton-Brain was elected a Pellow of the Society. 



