300 Linncean Society. — Horticultural Society. 



The reading of Professor Hooker's Description cf the 

 Plants collected by Capt. Sabine in his late Voyage in the 

 Polar Seas was continued : much interest is given to this Com- 

 munication by the information afforded relative to the geogra- 

 phical range of these specimens of the Arctic Flora derived 

 from the accounts of Parry, Wahlenberg, Scoresby, Ross, 

 Richardson, Jameson, Swartz, Pursh, &c. &c. The lovers 

 of natural history will feel grateful to Capt. Sabine, who was 

 fully occupied, while on this voyage, with pursuits of a dif- 

 ferent kind, for having been so attentive to Botany and Zoo- 

 logy- 



A part was read of a Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk 

 Birds, with remarks, by the Rev. Revett Sheppard, M.A. 

 F.L.S., and the Rev. William Whitear, M.A. F.L.S., — a paper 

 which seems to possess much interest, from the particulars 

 which it furnishes of the habits and history of the many migra- 

 tory birds that visit this district from the northern part of 

 the Continent. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Feb. 1 7. — The Society's large Silver Medal was presented to 

 Signer Antonio Piccioli, a Corresponding Member of the So- 

 ciety, for his present of a large collection of Models of the Fruits 

 of Tuscany, made to the Society. 



March 2. — The following communications were read : 



Observations on the Effects of Age on Fruit Trees of 

 different kinds, with an Account of some new Varieties of 

 Nectarines. By the President. 



A Note on the Pears called Sylvanges. By Mons. Charles 

 Francois Pierard, of Manjouy, near Vendun-sur-Meuse, a 

 Corresponding Member of the Society. 



Accounts and Descriptions of some new Pears. By Mr. 

 John Turner, the Assistant Secretary. 



March 16. — The large Silver Medal was presented to Mr. 

 Charles Harrison, F.H.S., for his newly published Work on 

 Fruit Trees. 



The following communications were read : 



On Fig Trees, with a Description and Account of their Cul- 

 tivation in a Fig- House in the Garden of the late Earl of 

 Bridgewater, at Ashridge in Hertfordshire. By Joseph Sa- 

 bine, Esq. F.R.S. &c, Secretary. 



On the Cultivation of Early Crops of Peas. By Mr. Da- 

 niel Judd, F.H.S. 



On the Preparation of Strawberry Plants for early Forcing. 

 By the President. 



April 6. — The large Silver Medal was presented to Mr. 



William 



