LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. )xiii 
March 6th, 1862. 
George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Albany Hancock, Esq., Thomas Hyde Hills, Esq., and Robert 
McLachlan, Esq., were elected Fellows. 
Dr. Cobbold, F.L.S., communicated the substance of a Paper, 
entitled, “ Histological Observations on the Eye of the Cod-fish 
(Morrhua vulgaris), with especial reference to the Choroid Gland 
and the Cones of the Retina.” (See ‘ Zoological Proceedings,’ 
vol. vi.) 
March 20th, 1862. 
George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
The Right Hon. Lord Lilford, W. H. Flower, Esq., St. George 
Jackson Mivart, Esq.,and Benjamin Leadbeater, Esq., were elected 
Fellows. 
Read, 1st, the following Letter from Professor Babington, 
F.R.S. & L.S., accompanying specimens of Isoétes echinospora, 
Durieu, from the neighbourhood of Llanberis, for the Society’s 
British Herbarium :— 
“ To the Secretary of the Linnean Society of London. 
“Cambridge, 22nd February, 1862. 
“My par Srr,—Will you have the kindness to place before 
the Linnean Society, and afterwards deposit in the British Her- 
barium, the enclosed specimen of Isoétes echinospora, Dur., named 
by him. I am not able to state the exact spot near Llanberis 
(Caernarvonshire) where I gathered the plant in 1847, but believe 
it to have been in the Lower Lake. I am sorry that the specimen 
is not finer; but all the specimens that I have seen are smaller 
than those of I. lacustris, and the best that I possessed were sent 
to France. 
“Mr. W. Wilson, the celebrated muscologist, has furnished M. 
Durieu and myself with a specimen between us of the same species, 
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