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[Mr, Edraonston will be well remembered by many readers of the 

 ' Phytologist ' as one of its earliest and most interesting contributors. 



—Ed.] 



Proceedings of Societies. 



Linneati Society of London. 



December 2, 1851. — W. Yarrell, Esq., in the chair. 



Mr. Moore, of the Botanic Garden, Chelsea, presented specimens 

 of the staminiferous cones of Zamia fnrfuracea to the museum. 



Mr. Adam White exhibited two boxes of insects, containing chiefly 

 new or rare species from South America, collected by Messrs. F. 

 Smith and H. W. Bates. In the collection made by the latter gentle- 

 man were many species of butterfly, one of the most beautiful of which 

 had been named, after him, Galathea Batesii. In speaking of Mr. 

 Bates, Mr. White said that he had left England in May, 1848, and 

 had collected plants and insects in the neighbourhood of Para, and 

 afterwards proceeded up the Amazons, as far as Ega, and had sent 

 home many very valuable collections. He returned to Para in May 

 last, and was now anxious to proceed to investigate the natural his- 

 tory of the branch of the Amazons known as the Rio Tapajos. He 

 had been much hampered for want of means, but, provided he could 

 obtain resources, he hoped to remain in this district for two or three 

 years. The mouth of the Tapajos, where the town of Santarem is situ- 

 ated, is about 500 miles from Para ; the river extends 1000 or 1200 

 miles into the interior of Brazil, to the province of Matto Grapo. 



A continuation of Mr. Miers's paper ' On two New Genera of South- 

 American Plants ' was read. The second genus belonged to the order 

 Bignoniaceae. Tt was a leafless, shrubby, spinous plant, eight feet 

 high. Hence the name proposed for it by the author was that of 

 Oxycladus aphyllus. It differs in some material points from the order 

 to which it belongs, and constitutes a sub-order, Oxycladeae. 



