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will of course be transparent, and will be represented by dark lines 

 on the prepared paper to which it is applied, when exposed to sun- 

 shine. The same principle may be applied to make numerous copies 

 of any writing. 



The Society then adjourned over the Easter Recess, to meet again 



on the 1 1th of April. • 



LINN^AN SOCIETY. 



March 6, 1838. — Mr. Newman, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of 

 the Noctiia cubicularis in the larva state, obtained fi-om Ham Green, 

 near Bristol, the seat of Richard Bright, Esq., where this caterpillar 

 had proved very destructive to wheat in the rick. 



Dr. Bromfield, F.L.S., exhibited a specimen of a singular variety 

 of Crepis virens, with the leaves nearly entire, gathered by him in a 

 wood near Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. 



A plant in flower of the rare Ophrys lutea of Cavaniilas was ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Anderson, from the Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea. 



Read a description of the Mosses collected in the journey of the 

 late deputation into Upper Assam, in the years 183.5 and 1836. By 

 William Griflith, Esq., Assistant Surgeon on the Madras Establish- 

 ment. Communicated by R. H. Solly, Esq., F.R.S. & L.S. 



March 20, 1838.— Read a description of the Mora tree. By Mr. 

 Robert H. Schomburgk. Communicated by George Bentham, Esq., 

 F.L.S. 



April 3, 1838. — Read a communication on the existence of Sto- 

 mata in Mosses. In a letter to R. H. Solly, Esq., F.R.S. & L.S. 

 By William Valentine, Esq., F.L.S. 



Mr. Anderson, F.L.S., exhibited, from the Chelsea Botanic Gar- 

 den, flowering plants of Pterostylis concinna and Perdicium lyratvm. 



April 17, 1838.— Read a paper by Prof. Don, Libr. L.S., de- 

 scribing two new genera of the natural family of plants called Coni- 

 fer (B. 



May 1, 1838. — Mr. Curtis read a paper, being descriptions of the 

 Coleoptera collected by Capt. P. P. King, R.N., during his survey 

 of the Straits of Magellan. 



Read a ])aper on the affinities of Arachis and Voandzeia. By 

 George Bentham, Esq., F.L.S. 



May 24, 1838. — This day, the anniversary of the birth-day of 

 Linnseus, and that appointed in the charter for the election of Coun- 

 cil and Officers, the Right Rev. the Bii^hop of Norwich, President of 

 the Society, opened the business of the meeting, and in stating the 

 number of Fellows whom the Society had lost during the past year, 

 gave biographical notices of some of them. 



At the election which subsequently took place, the Lord Bishop 

 of Norwich was re-elected President; Edward Forster, Plsq., Trea- 

 eurer; Francis Boott, M.]^., Secretary; and Richard Taj'lor, Esq., 

 Under Secretary. The following live gentlemen were elected into 

 the Council in the room of others going out : viz. Arthur Aikin, 

 Esq. ; John Jos. Bennett, Esq. ; George Bentham, Esq. ; the Earl of 

 Derby; and John Guillemard, Esq. 



Phil. May. S. 0. \o\. 14. No, 90. May. 1839. 2 B 



