LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LOIfDON. 



Some of tlie difficulties of the editor were enumerated, and 

 displayed upon the black-board. 



Mr. C. C. Lacaita gave a similar instance of an Italian 

 botanist persisting in writing in a local dialect. 



January 16th, 1919. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Greneral Meeting of the 5th December, 1918, 

 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. 



Mr. William Wright Smith, Miss Gladys Boyd Hurrv, Mr. 

 Charles Cuthbert Elev, J.P., M.A.(Oxon.), Mr. William Arthur 

 Wilkinson, F.Z.S., Mr. Wilfred Edward Hiley, M.A.(Oxon), 

 Mr. Fi-ancis Edward Kobotham, and Mr. John Hutchinson were 

 admitted Fellows. 



The following were severally balloted for and elected 

 Fellows:— Robert William Ascroft, M.B.E. ; William Broad- 

 hurst Brierley, M.Sc. ; the Eev. Charles Osborne Smeathman 

 Hatton, B.A.(Cantab.); and Harold John Hastings liussell, 

 B.A., F.Z.S. 



A vacancy for an Associate caused by the death of James 

 Eustace Bagxall was announced from the Chair. 



An account was given bv Capt. A. W. Hill, F.L.S., of the 

 horticultural work tTiat had been carried out in the military 

 cemeteries in France since 1916, when such work first became 

 possible; reference was also made to the cemeteries in the Italian 

 and other theatres of war. 



It is intended to make the cemeteries, as far as possible, smooth 

 well-kept gniss-lawns, surrounded by hedges of thorn, beech, or 

 hornbeam, with groups, avenues, or pole-hedges of trees, such as 

 Siberian crabs, limes, hornbeams, willows, etc., and to plant on the 

 graves rose-bushes. Iris, and other dwarf carpeting-plants. 



Steps are being taken as far as possible to mark the cemeteries 

 where Canadian, Australian, jS"ew Zealand, Indian, and other 

 Overseas soldiers lie buried with ])lants native to the countries 

 whence they came to the defence of the Empire. 



Allusion was made to the problems which have to be faced in 



