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“ Moreover, a new propagating-house has just been completed, 
and 25 acres of forest land have already been cleared for the Cin- 
chona plantations. A very large supply of seeds of the C. Conda- 
minea, from Loxa, was sent off to India and Ceylon this day. The 
great planting-out of Cinchonas in the Neilgherries will commence 
next spring.” 
Dr. Hooker, V.P.L.S., gave an account of Welwitschia mira- 
bilis, illustrated by drawings, specimens, and sections. This most 
extraordinary plant was detected in 1859 by Dr. Frederick Wel- 
witsch near Cape Negro, in Western Africa, and described by 
him (under the provisional name of “ Zwmboa’’) in the last volume 
of the Society’s ‘Journal’ (Botany, p. 185-6). The specimens 
were kindly sent for exhibition by Sir W. J. Hooker, K.H., 
F.R.S. & L.S., by whom they had been recently received from the 
discoverer. 
February 6th, 1862. 
George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Wilham Ferguson, Esq., John Daniel Moore, M.D., Henry Scott, 
M.D., Charles Tyler, Esq., and James Veitch, Jun., Esq., were 
elected Fellows. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. “Notes on the Anatomy of the Smynthuride;”’ by John 
Lubbock, Esq., F.R.S. & L.S. 
Very different opinions have been held by various naturalists as 
to the true affinities of the Thysanoura, and the position which 
they ought to hold among the Articulata. Other aberrant groups, 
however, have been considered worthy of special study; but, in 
the present instance this has not been the case, and the Thy- 
sanoura have been much neglected. The beauty of their colours, 
the elegance of their forms, and the frequency of their occurrence 
have all been unable to tempt our entomologists to the pursuit 
of animals which cannot be pinned, and are moreover more than 
suspected of having passed the fatal Rubicon of entomology. 
The Thysanowra consist of two great groups, the Lepismide 
