LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON". 3 



November 19th, 1903. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Thomas Archibald Sprague was admitted a Fellow of the 

 Society. 



The Eev. John GtBUaud, S.J., F.L.S., exhibited a fasciated rose, 

 sent by the Eev. J. Dobson, of St. Ignatius's College, St. Julian, 

 Malta, with this note: — "A freak of a white climbing rose, in 

 which eight or nine blossoms with their stalks have grown to- 

 gether. It was given me by the Director of Education from a 

 rose-tree in his garden. He says there is nothing in the position 

 of the bush to account for the peculiarity." 



Dr. M. T. Masters observed that we are in complete ignorance 

 of the causes which produce these peculiar teratologic cases. 



The Eev. E. Ashington Bullen, F.L.S., brought for exhibition 

 an albino mole, from a farm near Bagshot : it was wholly of a light 

 fawn colour, and no similar specimen had been seen there for at 

 least twenty years, though many moles have been trapped on the 

 same farm. 



Mr. A. D. Michael stated that he had been in the habit of 

 investigating moles' nests for his researches on mites, but nothing 

 of this kind had ever come under his notice. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "A General View of the Genus Pinus." By Dr. M, T. 

 Masters, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



2. " Contributions to the Embryology of the Amentifei'se. — Part 

 II. Carpinus Betiihis." By Miss Margaret Benson, D.Sc. , and Miss 

 Elizabeth Sanday, B.Sc. (Communicated by Prof. F. Wall Oliver.) 



December 3rd, 1903. 



Prof. J. Bbetland Farmer, F.E.S., N'ice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



1'he Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. William Norwood Cheeseman, Mr. WilUam Clitheroe, Mr. 

 Ernest Jacob Collins, Mr. Frederick Hamilton Davey, Mr. William 

 Foggitt, Mr. Montague Hill, Mr. John Edmund Shorec Moore, and 

 Mr. Eobert Walter Campbell Shelford were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



The Vice-President in the Chair then declared the Meeting to 



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