vii PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
will be graciously pleased so to temper the severity of this great 
calamity, that Your Majesty may be enabled to find the truest 
consolation under affliction, and the best support in its endurance, 
in the exercise of the privileges and the duties of your high station, 
and in the continuance of that parental and superintending care, 
which is so well calculated to render Your Majesty’s Royal House 
a blessing to the nation, and an example to the other kingdoms of 
the earth.” 
“ For the President and Council of the Linnean Society, 
(Signed) ‘“ Gzrorer Brentuam, President.” 
Mr. Bates exhibited specimens of Lepidopterous Insects, in 
illustration of his Paper “ On the Insect-Fauna of the Amazon 
Valley,” read on the 21st of November, 1861. 
The President read a Letter addressed to himself by Clement R. 
Markham, Esq., of the India Office, forwarding for presentation 
to the Society four pamphlets, printed for the use of those en- 
trusted with the cultivation of Cinchone in India and Ceylon :— 
viz. 1. Report on the Cultivation of the Quina-tree in Java (trans- 
lated from the ‘ Bonplandia’): 2. Translations of Dr. Karsten’s 
work on New Granada Barks, and Poeppig’s on those of Huanuco: 
3. Botanical descriptions of the species of Cinchona now growing 
in India and Ceylon; from the works of Weddell, Howard, &ec. : 
4. Mr. Spruce’s Report on the ‘ Red Bark’ region ; and requesting 
that the President would mention to the Society how successful the 
introduction of the Cinchona-trees into the Neilgherry Hills has 
hitherto been. 
“My last accounts,”’ he says, “ are dated November 30th, when 
the plants were in very fine condition; many of them in the most 
luxuriant state of health. Average growth of the month 2} inches ; 
largest of the plants 3 feet 9 inches high. 
“The number of plants was as follows :— 
BUCO BUTE 9. haa vaso Gs04 2d Besstsnshiaat ae 
6 ia 5TH aR te POP eas 8 6 
OPTI cits waiwee de swiss cueioaieasins eos ae Pe 
OPEV OMIM ay Sckanaccsees soosenueniesisnigae Tame 
GPP EF UPTO soa tao dua veadne -okaeeethas oe ee 64 
(OP RIALMAUIUS , "soc tavenn Mavs eetoneeacee 175 
weg tees 
Species without name ............... 
Total...... 7466 plants. 
