688 Ejctracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society. 



directed to it to lead to its discovery in other localities ; and I shall 

 be happy if my meeting with it so near London may be the means 

 of getting it restored to the British Flora, where it certainly is at 

 least as much entitled to a place as Centranthus ruber, Petrosel'mum 

 sativum, and other avowedly naturalized plants." 

 1838. 

 June 19. Read a "Description of a new Species of Cattîeiia." By R. H. 

 Schomburgk, Esq. Communicated by Professor Lindley, F.L.S. 



Mr. Schoinburgk's figure and description of this plant, to which 

 he gives the name of Cattleya superba, have since been published by 

 Professor Lindley in his Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 22. 



Nov. 6. The Vice-President in the Chair announced to the Meeting, that 

 the late Nathaniel John Winch, Esq., A.L.S., of Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne, had bequeathed to the Society his entire Herbarium, consist- 

 ing of upwards of 12,000 species of Plants, together with his Library 

 of Natural History. 



Read a " Notice of the occurrence of Procellar'ia PFllsom on the 

 Britisli Coast." By Jonathan Couch, Esq., F.L.S. 



Mr. Couch states, that "about the middle of August of the present 

 year, the Stormy Petrel, Proc. Pelagka, abounded on the south coast 

 of Cornwall, driven thither, it is probable, by about a week's conti- 

 nuance of wind accompanied by rain ; under which circumstances 

 they are commonly found by thousands at a few miles from land, in 

 the months of September and October. It is probable that the 

 weather, as described above, had driven to us this rare stranger, the 

 first of its species I believe on record as having occurred in Britain, 

 which was found at the same time dead in a field at a few miles from 

 Polperro, and was brought to me for examination. As our sailor 

 boys were in possession of numerous living specimens of the Stormy 

 Petrel, which are taken with great facility when the weather suits, 

 I found no diflliculty in instituting a comparative examination of 

 these two species ; and I beg leave to lay the result before the 



