S PBOCEBDINGS OF 1 HE 



The report of the Donations received since the last General 

 Meeting was laid before the Fellows, and the thanks of the Society 

 to the several Donors were ordered. 



Mr. Henry Brougham Guppy was admitted a Fellow. 



Mr. 8yed Khurshaid Ahmed was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. Edwin Henry Kirby and Mr. Frederick William Mills were 

 proposed as Fellows. 



The General Secretary gave an account of the ' Panphyton 

 siculum' of Francesco Cupaiii (1657-1710) which was described 

 by Pritzel as " liber iueditus rarissimus." A few copies, none of 

 which were complete, w ere issued in 1713 ])y Cupani's patron, the 

 Prince Delia Cattolica, the copy in the library of the Jesuit 

 Fathers at Palermo being the nearest complete, and therefore cited 

 by Gussoue in his 'Prodromus' and 'Synopsis'; it consists of 

 .'3 volumes with about 700 plates, w^ithout text ; the copy in our 

 library has only 196 plates, two of which are in duplicate. This 

 was followed by a reissue, in the year 1722 or thereabout, of 168 

 plates with engraved numbers and names of the plants altered in 

 some cases, but without title or text. Pritzel enumerates 6 copies 

 he has seen, and additional copies in the same state exist in our 

 own library, the Bauksian collection in the British Museum, and 

 tlie Botanical Department of tlie Natural History Museum, but 

 the last-named copy wants 29 plates. In 1807, Eafinesque, then 

 living at Palermo, issued a prospectus of yet another issue as 

 ' Pamphysia sicula,' which is cited by Gussoue, but apparently no 

 copy is known in this country. The single plate in this prospectus 

 is from an engraved plate, whereas the two earlier issues are from 

 etched ])lates. 



Dr. Bendle remarked upon the need for a clearing up of the 

 problems presented by this often-quoted but scarce work. 



The second volume shown by the General Secretary was the 

 little anonymous volume, ' I/Histoire et pourtrait des plantes,' 

 Lyon, 1561. The volume belonged to Linne, and a pencil note 

 on the title-page by Smith refers to an entry in Haller's 

 ' Bibliotheca botauica,' i. 318, which proves to be copied from 

 Adauson's 'Families des plantes,' i. p. 6, where the book is 

 described from Jussieu's library as ' Le Benefice commun ' — the 

 running headline, not the title — but Jussieu's copy is given as 

 published at Rouen in 1555, and attributed to Dugort ; the 

 brothers Jean and liobert Dugort were ])rinters at Eouen at that 

 time, and probably com])iled the volume from the Lyons issue of 

 Fuchs's ' Historia stirpium' of 1551, for 19 of the cuts are 

 identical in l»oth books, with 8 not yet traced. At present no 

 help in clearing up the points involved has been obtained from 

 Bar bier's ' Ouvrages anonymes,' Quorard's ' La France litteraire,' 



