PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LiNNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON 



(ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH SESSION, 

 1917-1918.) 



November 1st, 1917, 



Sir David Prain, C.M.G., C.I.E., F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General and Adjourned Meetings of the 

 7th June, 1917, were read and confirmed. 



The report of the Donations received since the last meeting was 

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

 several Donors were ordered. 



The President drew attention to the important donations of 

 Sir Frank Crisp, Bt., of the complete series of 'Lindenia' in 

 17 volumes, of 14 bound volumes of papers with special index by 

 the Rev. GrEORGE Heistslow, and of the volume deposited in the 

 Society's care by Mr. A. Forbes Sieveking, of Tournefort's 

 ' Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux euvirons de Paris,' 1725, 

 with the autograph of Buffon on the titlepage. 



Mr. Harry Howard Allan, M.A., Mr. AV'ellington Ernest Groves, 

 Mr. Walter Reginald Brook Oliver, Mr. Arthur Anselm Pearson, 

 Miss Eleanor Vachell, Mr. James Watt, W.S., and Mr, Edward 

 Berkeley Wilkinson, were proposed as Fellows. 



Mr. Henry Brougham Guppy, M.B., Dr. John Rudd Leeson, 

 F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S., and Mr. Richard Mounsey, F.R.G.S., were 

 elected Fellows. 



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