}S PEOCEBDINGS OF THE 



May Srd, 1917. 



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



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 19th April, 1917, 

 were read and confirmed. 



The report of the Donations received since the last meeting was 

 laid before the Fellows, and tlie thanks of the Society to the 

 several Donors \\'ere ordered. 



The General Secretary drew attention to an interesting volume 

 by Charles Eliot Norton, entitled " The Poet Gray as a Naturalist, 

 with selections from his notes on the 'Systeina Naturae 'of Linnaeus 

 and facsimiles of some of his drawings," published by Charles 

 E. Goodspeed, Boston, 1903, in octavo. His attention has been 

 drawn to the work by Mr. G. W. E. Loder, who showed him a 

 copy belonging to Mrs. Arthur Severn. As enquiries for the 

 work in London proved fruitless, he enquired of our Foreign 

 Member, Prof. C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica 

 Plain, Massachusetts, as to whether copies were still procurable. 

 Within the last few days two copies were received, with a most 

 cordial letter from Prof. Sargent, asking their acceptance " as a 

 very slight token of my regard and admiration for the Linnean 

 Society and its officers." 



Mr. Walter John Dowson, M.A. (Cantab.), was proposed as a 

 Fellow. 



Mr. Arthur John Fry Gibbons was elected a Fellow, and 

 Prof. Victor Gregoire, Prof. Thomas Hunt Morgan, and 

 Prof. Hans Schinz were elected Foreign Members. 



Mr. H. W. PuGSLEY, B.A., gave a summary of his paper (com- 

 municated by Dr. A. B. Eendle, F.E-.S., Sec.L.S.), "An Enume- 

 ration of the Species of Fumaria, section Splwroca^^nos." 



A discussion followed, Mr. James Groves, Mr. F. N. Williams, 

 Mr. T. A. Dymes, and Mr. A. J. Wilmott taking part, and the 

 author replied. 



Mr. G. M. Etan, F.L.S., read a paper " On the Flowers of the 

 Mahua, Bassin latlfolia, Eoxb.," in which he described the tree 

 and its products, illustrating his remarks by photographs and 

 lantern-slides. 



Dr. A. B. Eendle and Dr. 0. Stapf added some further obser- 

 vations. 



The Zoological Secretary briefly described the scope of the 

 following papers, both of them by Dr. Walter E. Collinge, 



