CONTENTS.-.No. CXIV. 



JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIOxHS. 



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Ordinary Meeting .... 93 



China's Place in Ancient History : A Fragment. By Surgeon- 



Genbral Sir Charles A. Gordon, M.D., K.C.B., Q.H.P 93 



Discussion 130 



Ordinary Meeting ... 134 



Communications from Her Majesty the Queen, and Her Eoyal 

 Highness Princess Henry of Battenberg 134 



The Polynesians and their Plant-Names. By H. B. Guppy, 



M.B 135 



List o'f Plant-Names ... 149 



Discussion 171 



Communication from Professor Max Muller, Dr. John 



Fraser, F.KS. (N.S.W) 171 



^^jlT" The Institute's object being to investigate, it must not be held to endorse 

 the varioiis views e:»:pressed at its meetings. 



