liv PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
J. A. Hankey, Esq. Joseph Milligan, Esq. 
Sir J. B. Hearsey, K.C.B. T. N. R. Morson, Esq. 
Rev. J. S. Henslow. Sir R. I. Murchison. 
Sir W. J. Hooker. Algernon Peckover, Esq. 
J.D. Hooker, M.D., V.P. Charles Ratcliff, Esq. 
Robert Hudson, Esq. F. C. 8. Roper, Esq. 
T. C. Janson, Esq. S. J. A. Salter, Esq. 
R. Kippist, Libr. L. 8. W. W. Saunders, Esq., V.P. 
J. S. Law, Esq. Thomas Thomson, M.D. 
John Lubbock, Esq. John Van Voorst, Esq. 
George Macleay, Esq. G. C. Wallich, M.D. 
T. W. Mann, Esq. Alfred White, Esq. 
John Miers, Esq. Joseph Woods, Esq. 
The special Thanks of the Society were likewise directed to be 
given to Major Salmon, Executor of the late J. D. Salmon, Esq., 
F.L.S., in return-for the bequest, by his late brother, of a valuable 
collection of birds’ eggs, dried plants, numerous works on natural 
history, &e. 
Mr. Stevens, F'.L.S., exhibited specimens of 25 species of Birds, 
collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace, at Waigiou and Mysol, near New 
Guinea. 
The Secretary read a Letter from R. B. Cooke, Esq., F.LS., 
&¢e., dated “Scarborough, June 20th, 1861,’ and announcing the 
discovery of Maianthemum bifolium on the range of hills opposite 
Harkness, about 43 miles from Scarborough, where this rare and 
beautiful plant grows in the woods, among luxuriant specimens 
of Trientalis europea. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. “On West-African Tropical Orchids;’’ by John Lindley, 
Esq., Ph.D., F.RS., L.S., &e. (See ‘ Botanical Proceedings,’ 
vol. vi.) 
2. “ Note on the Structure of the Anther;’’ by Daniel Oliver, 
Esq., F.L.S8., Prof. Bot. Univ. Coll. Lond. (See ‘ Transactions,’ 
vol. xxiii. part 3.) 
