Linnccan Society. 439 



Animal,' he points out some omissions with regard to the habits and 

 oeconomv of (E. Eqiii and CE. hemorrhoidalis, and objects to the 

 statement that the eg^i of the latter are deposited on the verge of 

 the anus of the animal attacked. He strongh' deprecates the opi- 

 nion of Pallas and Latreille, that there exists a proper human (Estrus, 

 ■which he regards as altogether founded in error ; and believes the 

 larva figured in illustration of a supposed case of the kind published 

 by Mr. Howship, to be that of GE. Bovis. 



Lastly, he describes three species, added to the genus (Estrus since 

 the publication of his Treatise, viz. (E. pictus of Megerle, (E. Liby- 

 cus of Riippel, and CE. Clarkii of Shuckard. The following are the 

 characters of the latter species, figures of which, and of (E. Libycus, 

 accompany the paper : — 



CE. Clarlcii, caerulescenti-fuscus, alis obscuris antice simiatis bdsin versus 

 atro-bipunctatis. 



Hub. ad Caput Bonre Spei. 



He adds also a description of a new sjiecies of his genus Cuterebra, 

 with the following characters : — 



C.fonianella, thorace atro lateribus albis, abdomine violaci o : sejimcntis 



iiltiniis albis nigro-punctatis. 

 Hub. in Illinois Auiericie Borealis, cunicubs pripcipue infests. 



May 4. — Mr. Brown, V.P., in the Chair. 



Read the commencement of " Remarks on some new or rare Spe- 

 cies of Brazilian Plants." By Charles James Fox Bunbury, Esq., 

 F.L.S. 



May 24. — The Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 



This day, the Anniversary of the birth-day of Linnaeus, and that 

 appointed by the Charter for the Election of Council and Officers, the 

 President opened the business of the Meeting, and stated the num- 

 ber of Members whom the Society had lost during the past year. 

 The following is a list of the Members who have died within that 

 period, acccompanied with notices of some among them. 



Francis Bauer, Esq., F.R.S., 8(C., was born at Feldsberg, in 

 Austria, on the 4th of October, 1758. His father, who held an ap- 

 pointment as painter to Prince Lichtenstein, died while he was yet 

 a boy, and the care of his education devolved upon his mother. So 

 early was his talent for botanical drawing manifested, that the first 

 published production of his pencil, a figure of Anemone pratensis, L., 

 is appended to a dissertation by Storck ' de Usu Pulsatillae nigri- 

 cantis,' which bears date in 1771. 



In I7SS he came to England in company with the younger Jac- 

 quin, and after visiting his brother Ferdinand, v\-ho was then engaged 

 in completing the beautiful series of drawings since published in the 

 ' Flora Grseca,' was about to proceed to Paris. But the liberal pro- 

 posals made to him by Sir Joseph Banks on the eve of his intended 

 departure, diverted him from this resolution, and induced him to 

 remain in England and to take up his residence in the neighbourhood 

 of the Royal Garden at Kew, in which village he continued to dwell 

 until the termination of his life. It was the opinion of Sir Joseph 

 Banks, that a botanic garden was incomplete without a draughtsman 



