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Arms for their devising, granting and assigning sueh Arms, 

 Crest, and Supporters, as may be proper to be borne by the 

 said Linnean Society of London, on a Common Seal, Shields, 

 Banners, or otherwise, according to the Laws of Arms : And 

 forasmuch as the said Earl Marshal did by Warrant under his 

 Hand and Seal, bearing Date the Seventh Day of December 

 instant, authorize and direct us to devise, grant and assign such 

 Arms and Crest, and that Garter Principal King of Arms do 

 devise, grant and assign such Supporters accordingly ; Know 

 ye therefore that We the said Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy, in 

 pursuance of His Grace's Warrant, and by virtue of the Letters 

 Patent of our several Offices, to each of us respectively granted 

 under the Great Seal of Great Britain, have devised, and do by 

 these Presents grant and assign to the said Linnean Society of 

 London the Arms following, that is to say, Per Fess, the Chief 

 per Pale Gules and Vert, the Base Sable ; On a Fess Argent, 

 a Hurt, charged with an Egg erect proper : And for the Crest, 

 On a Wreath of the Colours, behind a Mount on which vegetates 

 the Linnaea borealis, the Sun rising an Splendour, all proper ; 

 as the same are in the Margin hereof more plainly depicted*. 

 And I the said Garter do hereby grant and assign the Sup- 

 porters following, that is to say, on the Dexter, a Lion Or, gorged 

 with the Linnaea borealis proper ; therefrom a Shield pendant, 

 per Pale Wavy Argent and Ermine, charged with a Rose slipp'd 

 Gules, and a Thistle Fessways proper : And on the Sinister, an 

 Eagle, rising proper, gorged as the Dexter, therefrom a Shield pen- 

 dant Argent, charged Avith a Trefoil slipp'd Vert ; as also depicted 

 in the Margin hereof: The said Anns, Crest and Supporters, with 

 the Motto " Naturce discere Mores," to be borne and used for 

 ever hereafter by the said Linnean Society of London, on a 



* Vide Title-page. 



Common 



