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gathered by him in a pool near Llyn y Cwn, Caernarvonshire, on 
June 30, 1828; and Dr. Dickie has sent one, for similar division, 
from Loch of Park, near Aberdeen, where it was gathered by Mr. 
Sutherland. 
“T do not enter upon a discussion of the characters of these 
plants, because Messrs. Durieu de Maisonneuve and Gay will 
publish a paper upon them and other species of Tsoétes at an early 
date. It may, nevertheless, be well to mention that Mr. Gay 
gives the characters to me as follows :— 
“*T. lacustris (LL.) ; folia stricta atro-viridia ; macrospore superficie 
obtuse tuberculate quasi farinacee. 
“*T. echinospora (Dur.) ; folia molliora patentissima lete viridia, 
senescentia e viridi-flava, macrospore acutiuscule tuberculate, 
quasi echinatule.’ 
“The ‘ Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr.’ viii. 164 is the place where a 
distinctive name and character were given to the plant. 
“Yours very truly, 
“C, C. Bapineton.” 
2. “ Observations on some Skulls from Ceylon, said to be those 
of Veddahs ;”’ by George Busk, Esq., F.R.S., Sec. L.S. (See 
‘ Zoological Proceedings,’ vol. vi.) 
April 3rd, 1862. 
George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Percival Forster, Esq., Septimus Holmes Godson, Esq., and 
James Thomson, Esq., were elected Fellows. 
Dr. Cogswell, F.L.S., exhibited a fine specimen of gold-bearing 
quartz, from the neighbourhood of Halifax, Nova Scotia; and 
Prof. Tennant exhibited, on the part of the Government of Nova 
Scotia, a valuable series of ores and specimens of gold from that 
Province, and made some observations upon them. 
The following Papers were read :-— 
1. “On the three remarkable Sexual Forms of Catasetum tri- 
dentatum, an Orchid in the possession of the Linnean Society ;”” by 
Charles Darwin, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. (See ‘Botanical Pro- 
ceedings,’ vol. vi.) 
