HNXEA;y SOCIETY OF LONDGX. 9 



The following Kesolutioii was put from the Chair, and adopted 

 unanimously : — 



" The Fellows of the Linnean Society in General Meeting 

 assembled, February 16, lUOo, express their profound sympathy 

 with Mrs. Howes in her recent bereavement, their admiration 

 for the distinguished career of her late husband, Professor 

 Thomas George Bo>d Howes, F.E.8., and their gratitude 

 for the long and energetic service w hich he rendered to the 

 Society as its Zoological Secretary." 



Miss E. WiLLMOTX, F.L.S., exhibited thirty water-colour drawings 

 of Eoses by Alfred Parsons, A.R.A., drawn at Great Warley, for 

 her forthcjming volume on the genus Eosa, together with some 

 chromo-lithographs of extreme excellence for the same volume. 



Messrs. H. J. Elwes, J. G. Baker, and H. Groves raised a 

 discussion on some points suggested by the drawings, to which 

 Miss Willmott replied. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " A Eevised Classification of Roses." Bv John Gilbert Baker, 

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



2. " The Botany of the Anglo-German Uganda Boundary 

 Commission.'' By Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S., S. L. Moore, F.L.S. , 

 and Dr. A. B. Eeudle, F.L,8. 



March 2nd, 1905. 

 Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.E.S., President in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 16tli February were 

 read and confirmed. 



Mr. William Norwood Cheeseman was admitted a Fellow. 



Marian, Lady Busk, Miss Lilian Jane Clarke, Miss Gabrielle 

 Louise Caroline Matthaei, Mr. Eeginald Innes Pocoek, F.Z.S., 

 and Mr. AVilliam Wise wei'e proposed as Fellows. 



Dr. Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Berlin ; Dr. Gottlieb 

 Haberlandt, Graz ; Prof. Ambrosias Arnold Willem Hubrecht, 

 Utrecht ; and M. Charles Eene Zeiller, Paris, were proposed as 

 Foreign Members. 



Miss Emily Mary Berridge, B.Sc, Mr. Frederick Hugh Capi'on, 

 B.A., Miss Helen Charlotte Isabella Eraser. B.Sc, and Miss Dorothea 

 Frances Matilda Pertz were severally balloted for and elected 

 Fellows. 



Mr. D. FiXLATSON, F.L.S., exhibited and explained the Ashe- 

 Finlayson " Comparascope," for displaying two objects in the same 



