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briuging to light certain items in the collections of Linnaeus, 

 doubtless much yet remained to be discovered, and instanced the 

 fact of his exhibiting the artificially produced pearls from the 

 Linnean Cabinets, lie suggested that possibly among the Lin- 

 neau manuscripts tliere might yet exist some documents stdl 

 unutilized which A\"ould throw light upon the procedure adopted 

 by Linnseus as regards pearl-mussels. 



The folloA\ ing paper ^vas read : — 



" The Botany of Gough Island. — Part II. The Cryptogams, 

 exclusive of Ferns and Unicellular Algae."' By E. X. lludmose 

 Brown, B.Sc. (Communicated by W. B. Hemsley, F.E.B., F.L.S.) 



June 15th, 1905. 



Prof. W. A. Herdman, P.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 1st June were 

 read and confirmed. 



Mr. Frederick William Lucas, the Eev. William Jenkins Webb 

 Anderson, and Miss Kate Marion Hall were admitted Fellows. 



The Eev. John Gerard, S.J., F.L.8., exhibited a series of 

 lantern-slides of Arum macidatum, in disproof of the statements 

 of Hermann Mueller and others as to the fertilization of this 

 plant by small flies, pointing out that these flies were not 

 imprisoned by the abortive hair-like organs above the stamens, 

 but that these visitants became stupitied by the nectar afforded by 

 the ovaries, and were digested by the plant. 



The Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing, Mr. Henry Groves, and the Presi- 

 dent joined in a brief discussion. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "Biscayan Plankton.— Part VI. The Colloid Eadiolaria." 

 By Dr. E. N. Wolfenden, F.L.S. 



2. " Biscayan Plankt;on. — Part VII. The Mollusca (except 

 Cephalopoda).'* By Prof. Paul Pelseneer. (Communicated bv 

 Dr. G. H. Fowler, F.L.S.) 



3. "Eemarks on the Longitudinal Nerves and Transverse 

 Veins in the Leaves of Bamboos." By Sir Dietrich Brandis, 

 K.C.I.E., F.E.S., F.L.S. 



4. "On some Eemarkable Indian Undershrubs.'' By the same. 



5. " Note on a Skeleton of the Musk-Duck, Biziura lohata, 

 with Special Eeference to Skeletal Characters acquired by Adapta- 

 tion." By W. P. Pycraft, A.L.S. 



6. "Notes on the Genus Widdrm(jtonia:' Bv Dr. M. T. 

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



