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some found in a bone-cave in the Pyrenees, whicli appeared to belong 

 to a hybrid between the goat and the Bouquetin. 



3. LiNNEAN Society. (Burlington House.) 



Mmj lUli, 1865. {Anniversary.) 



The following Fellows were elected members of the Council, in 

 the room of others going out : The Eev. Hamlet Clark, Messrs. 

 Eobert Hogg, LL.D., A. Newton, J. T. B. Syme, and E. H. Vinen, 

 M.D. Mr. G-. Bentham, E.E.S., was re-elected President ; Mr. W. 

 W. Saunders, F.E.S., Treasurer ; and Professor Busk, E.E.S., and 

 Mr. Currey, F.E.S., Secretaries. 



June 1st, 1865. 



The President nominated Messrs. J. J. Bennett, J. D. Hooker, 

 M.D., John Lubbock, and W. W. Saunders, Vice-Presidents for the 

 year ensuing. Tlie papers read were : 1. " Eemarks on the Best 

 Method of Displaying Entozoa in Museums," by T. S. Cobbold, 

 M.D., F.E.S. 2. " On Animal Individuality, from an Entomolo- 

 gical Point of View," by the same author. 3. " Contributions towards 

 a Monograph of the Species of Annelides belonging to the Aphro- 

 ditacea, containing a List of the Known Species and Descriptions of 

 some New Species, from the Collection of the British Museum," 

 by W. Baird, M.D., F.L.S. 4. "Synopsis of the mpera of the 

 Eastern Archipelago, discovered by Mr. Wallace, and noticed in 

 the Journal of the Linnsean Society," by Mr F. Walker, F.L.S. 



June 15tk, 1865. 



Mr. Syme exhibited a plant, in flower, of the rare Ceplialanthera 

 rubra, found by Mr. Gr. S. Wintle, in beech woods, in Gloucester- 

 shire. Mr. Eedhead exhibited a living plant of Cystopteris crenata, 

 from Gulbransdai, in Norway. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Descriptions of Fifty-two New Species of Phasmidce, from 

 the collection of Mr. W. W. Saunders, with remarks on the Family," 

 by Mr. H. W. Bates, Secretary Eoyal Geographical Society. 2. 

 *' On Two New Tropical African Genera of Anonacece^^ by Pro- 

 fessor Oliver, F.E.S. 3. " Notes on a Collection of Algce procured 

 in Cumberland Sound, by Mr. James Taylor ; and Eemarks on Arctic 

 Species in General," by George Dickie, ]\[.D. 4. " Supplementary 



