PATENT 



GRANTING AND ASSIGNING 



ARMS, CREST, AND SUPPORTERS, 



TO 



THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



To ALL AND SINGULAR to whom these Presents shall 

 come, Sir Isaac Heard Knight, Garter Principal King of Arms, 

 Thomas Lock Esquire, Clarenceux King of Arms, and George 

 Harrison Esquire, Norroy King of Arms, send Greeting : 

 "Whereas Alexander M * Leay Esquire hath by Letter represented 

 unto the Most Noble Charles Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal 

 and Hereditary Marshal of England, that the King's Most Excel- 

 lent Majesty hath been graciously pleased by his Royal Charter 

 under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, bearing Date the Twenty-sixth Day of March last, 

 to incorporate several of His Subjects into one Body Politic and 

 Corporate, by the Name of " The Linnean Society of 

 London," for the Cultivation of the Science of Natural History 

 in all its Branches, and more especially of the Natural History 

 of Great Britain and Ireland ; and there being in the said Charter, 

 a Clause, granting perpetual Succession and a Common Seal to 

 the said Society, he therefore, as Secretary to the said Society, 

 requested on the Part of the Council thereof, the Favour of His 

 Grace to issue his Warrant to Garter and the other Kings of 



Arms 



