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gular resemblance to the female generative organs of a Diphya, and 
this resemblance extends even to the younger stages of both. 
Mr. Huxley concludes by referring Physalia to the position as- 
signed to it by Eschscholtz among Physophore, and near Discolabe or 
Angela. In fact, he regards Physalia as in all its essential elements 
nothing but a Physophora, whose terminal dilatation has increased 
at the expense of the rest of the stem, and hence carries all its 
organs at the base of this dilatation. 
The paper was illustrated by pencil drawings of the structures de- 
scribed. 
Read also a translation * from the Swedish, of ‘‘ Almanac notes 
for the year 1735, by Charles von Linné. 
* Note by Dr. Wailich.—The Council of the Society did me the honour 
at the end of last session to entrust the duty of translation to my care. It 
has been made in the first instance from a communication by Joh. Aug. 
Holmstrém, in *‘ Botanical Notices” edited by Al. Ed. Lindblom, No. 12 for 
December 1845, pp. 210-218, with the following motto and preface. Mr. 
Bentham having pointed out to me that there existed a German translation 
by Dr. Beilschmid in the Flora for February 1847, pp. 97-104, I have gladly 
availed myself of this additional aid. Nor have I altogether neglected to 
consult the precious little relic itself, now in the Society’s possession, although 
of course without any other result than that of verifying the fidelity of Mr. 
Holmstrém’s edition. All the notes are his with very few exceptions, which 
have been duly marked. I have taken the liberty of frequently leaving Lin- 
nzeus’s abbreviations én statu quo, and very rarely indeed altered his ortho- 
graphy. 
“Parva hee quippe, et quanquam paucis percontantibus adorata, tamen 
ignorantibus transcursa.”—Apuleius, I lorida. 
Every, even the smallest memorial of a truly and through all ages 
great man, possesses its value, and deserves to be secured from de- 
cay and oblivion. It is on that account that I have thought it my 
duty to publish these notes of the ‘ Princeps Botanicorum,’ which 
have accidentally come into my hands. Although containing nothing 
new, or of great importance, they furnish several valuable data con- 
nected with, perhaps, the most remarkable year in the life of Linné ; 
they exhibit, in various points, traces of the peculiar naiveté of his 
style, and are therefore, in respect to character alone, not without 
their value. 
The annotations are written on ten pages, interleaved in an alma- 
nac having the following title: «‘Almanach pa Ahret efter Jesu Christi 
naderika Fodelse 1735. Til Skara Horizont, etc. Utreknad och steld 
af Birger Vassenio, samt vidare fortsattjande af underrettelsen til 
Retta Tanckar am thenna Synliga Werldennes Systemate, allar Sam- 
manhang.—Skara, Herm. Arnold Miller.” 16mo. (Almanac for the 
year 1735 from the gracious birth of J.C. For the horizon of Skara, 
&c. Calculated and regulated by Birger Vassenius, together with 
further instructions concerning right ideas of the system or structure 
of this visible world. ) 
The volume is quite complete and well-preserved. It appears, 
even during Linnzus’s lifetime, to have come into the possession of 
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