PEOCEEDINGS 



OF TEE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1891-92.) 



November 5tli, 1891. 



Prof. Chables Stewart, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. "William Lindsay Brown was elected a Fellow. 



On behalf of a number of subscribers, Mr. Carruthers pre- 

 sented to the Society a half-length portrait in oils of Sir John 

 Lubbock, Bart., M.P., P.O., F.E.S., a former President, painted 

 by Mr. Leslie Ward, and the remarks which he made on the 

 services rendered to biological science by Sir John Lubbock 

 drew from the latter a grateful acknowledgment of the honour 

 conferred upon him. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes showed some new Marine Algae from the 

 Ayrshire coast. 



Mr. J. C. Grenfel showed some Diatoms with pseudopodia, 

 illustrating his remarks with diagrams. 



The President exhibited and made some observations on a 

 tooth of the Walrus, which illustrated by the varying attrition 

 of its surface the successive periods of growth. 



Mr. E. V. Sherring called attention to a large series of framed 

 photographs which had been taken under his direction in 

 Grenada, and illustrated the general character of the West 

 Indian Flora, as well as the physical features of that particular 

 island. 



Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited a specimea of Wilson's Petrel, 



