PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH SESSION, 

 1916-1917.) 



November 2nd, 1916. 



Sir Dayid Prain, C.M.G., F.R.S., President, in the Chair, 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 1st June, 191 G, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Amongst the donations special mention was made of the gift of 

 several volumes by Mrs. Eeid, foi'merly belonging to our late 

 Fellow, Mr. James Robert Reid, C.I.E., P.L.S. 



A special vote of thanks was passed by acclamation for the 

 present by Sir Frank Crisp, Bt., of a phototypic copy of the 

 " Codex Viudobonensis Med. Gr. I." of Dioscorides, which was 

 printed at Leyden in 1906. 



The following were proposed as Fellows : — Mr. Sydney Frede- 

 rick Armstrong, Mr. Devi Sarn Bakshi, Mr. Richard Henrik 

 Beamish, D.L., Dr. Charles Hall Betts, LL.D., Mr. Robert 

 Hugh Bunting, Mr. Henry Augustas Hammond Dunn, Mr. Alfred 

 Ernest Knight, Mr, Leonard John Sedgwick, B. A. (Cantab.), and 

 Dr. John Lloyd Williams, D.Sc. 



Mr. William Williamson was elected a Fellow. 



The first paper was by Prof. G. S. Boulger, entitled "Earlv 

 Chapters in Plant Distribution," in which he sketched the first 



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