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OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1890-91.) 



November 6tli, 1890. 



Prof. Chaules Stewart, President, ia the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Alfred Taylor, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Tbe President announced that a selection of 58 volumes had 

 been received from the Library of the late Mr. John Ball, a 

 Fellow of the Society, and that an appropriate label had been 

 placed in each of them in commemoration of the donor. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes exhibited and made remarks on some little- 

 known seaweeds, including Monostroma Blythii and Capsosiphoii 

 aureolus, collected at Taymouth and on the Devonshire Coast. 



Mr. Greorge Murray exhibited and described the peculiarities 

 of some Galls o^ Rhodymenia. 



Prof. Greo. Bond Howes exhibited a specimen of Lima Mans, 

 with a byssus " nest " which it had spun in 21 days in a vessel 

 of sea-water in which it had been placed. Although constantly 

 watched by day and night, the act of spinning had not been ob- 

 served. (See Appendix, p. 30.) 



On behalf of Mr. J. W. Willis Bund, Mr. Harting exhibited 

 and made some remarks upon a South Pacific Petrel {CEstrelata 

 torquata, Macg.), which had been shot in Cardigan Bay in 

 December 1889. 



On behalf of Prof. Martin Duncan, who was unable to be 



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