LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDOK. 3 



November 29th, 1917. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Greneral Meeting of the 15th November, 

 1917, were read and confirmed. 



The report of the Donations I'eceived since the last meeting was 

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

 several Donors were ordered. 



Dr. James Charles McW alter was admitted a Fellow. 



Mr. George Claridge Druce, Hon. M.A. (Oxon.), was proposed 

 as a Fellow. 



Mr. Harry Howard Allaa, M.A., Mr. Wellington Ernest Groves, 

 Mr. Walter Eeginald Brook OliA^er, Mr. Arthur Anselm Pearson, 

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

 Berkeley Wilkinson, were severally elected Fellows. 



The General Secretary reported that a New Linnean Society 

 had been recently established in Sweden as " Svenska Linue- 

 Siillskapet," intended as a means for spreading information about 

 Sweden's greatest naturalist, Carl von Linne (1707-78). It pur- 

 poses to do this by publication of works by Linne and his pupils ; 

 to throw new light from modern standpoints on Linue's personality ; 

 to draw up a catalogue of all known memorials ; and to found a 

 complete Linnean library. The subscription is ten kroners 

 annually (about lis. 6d.) ; for Life Members 200 kroners, and 

 for Patrons 1200 kr. There are to be two meetings annually, in 

 spring and autumn, and more if required. The President is 

 Dr. Tycho Tullberg, a lineal descendant of Linne, Dr. J, M. 

 HuLTH, Secretary, Court Physician E. Foeberg, Treasurer, and 

 Professors Egbert Fries and Eutger Sernander as Councillors. 



The General Secretary was authorised to convey the Society's 

 cordial greeting to the newly established Society. 



Dr. Harold Wager, F.E.S., F.L.S., read a paper on " Intensity 

 and Direction of Light as Factors in Phototropism," illustrated by 

 lantern-slides and models. (See Abstract, p. 53.) 



Dr. E. Marion Delf, Prof. Margaret Benson, Lt.-Col. J. H. Tull 

 Walsii, Mr. A. W. Hill, and Dr. D. H. Scott, discussed certain 

 points of the paper, and the Author replied. 



He then read his second paper, " Spore-coloration in the 

 Agaricaceae." (See Abstract, p. 54.) 



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