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Mr. A. O. AValkkr exhibited (1) viviparous plauts ot" Car- 

 damine pratensis, which phenomenon was unusiuilly manifest this 

 year, probably due to the abnormal rainfall, and (2) a gall on the 

 flower-bud of the same plant, ascribed to Cecidomyia cardaminis. 



Dr. ScoxT, in remarking that the state of vivipary was to be 

 found in most years in some degree, alluded to a paper by A. Hansen 

 on the subject more than 20 years ago ( Abh. Seuckeub. naturf . Ges. 

 xii. 1881). 



Prof. T. M. Fries, F.M.L.S., who was present, had given a set 

 of prints of portraits of Linnaeus from his recent volumes on the 

 career of his eminent countryman, and, speaking in German, ex- 

 pressed his gratification at the facilities afforded him, during a stay 

 of a few weeks in London, of access to the whole of the Linnean 

 manuscripts. 



The General Secretary reminded the Fellows of a paper by 

 Mr. W. Carruthers, which was an amplification of one of his 

 Presidential Addresses, and read on the 4th March, 1897, in which 

 the various portraits had been photographed for reproduction. 



Mr. "W. T. HiNDMARSH exhibited photographs of the following 

 plants : — Prhmda deorum, Velen., which he bad succeeded in flow- 

 ering, he believed for the first time in this country ; Shoriia uaijiora, 

 Maxim., the Japanese representative of the genus, with larger 

 flowers than the original /S'. fjalacifolia, Torr. & Gray, and showing 

 a tendency to vary in colour according to exposure ; and Bhodo- 

 thamnus ChartuBcistus, Reichb., noteworthy for the abundance of its 

 flowers. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Species of Impatiens in the Wallichiau Collection." 

 By Sir Joseph Hooker, P.E.S., F.L.S. 



2. "Biscayan Plankton.— Part III. The Chaetognatha." By 

 Dr. G. H. Powler, F.L.S. 



3. " On the Flow of Fluids in Plant-stems." By Prof. E. J. 

 Anderson, F.L.S. 



June 16th, 1904. 



Prof. William A. Hekdman, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Major Geo. Henry Evans was elected, and Mr. Eichard Thomas 

 Baker was admitted a Fellow of the Society. 



The Eesolution of Council of the 2nd June relative to the 

 revised Bye-Laws, and the Bye-Laws themselves, were read a 

 second time from the Chair. 



