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described byMeissner as #2. Milliganii. The former, as it fowers freely and is 
very fragrant, is an acquisition to a shrubbery or arboretum; and the latter, 
if introduced, would be a pretty and striking variety in our flower borders. 
A note from J.B. Davis, Esq., of Shelton, in Staffordshire, England, read, 
soliciting contributions of Crania of Aborigines of Tasmania, Australia, 
New Zealand, and the Oceanic Islands, to aid him in bringing out an 
important work on Ethnology. Mr. Milligan will be glad to forward 
any well authenticated specimens of Crania which may be entrusted to 
him for Mr. Davis. 
A notice read from the Rev. R. L. King, of Sydney, containing notices of 
Australian Entromostracans, supplementary to his paper on Daphniade. 
The attention of the meeting was drawn to the recent interesting 
experiments of Professor Otto, of the Hamburgh Botanic Gardens, upon 
the remarkable evolution of heat during the expansion of the flowers of the 
Victoria Regia, in one of which a thermometer placed in a newly-opened 
flower rose 35° above the temperature of the water in which the plant 
flowered ! 
A discussion followed on the ‘ Sports” to which plants are subject, 
with reference to the astonishing results of M. Fabre’s experiments on 
certain species of gilops; from which it appears that careful selection 
and continued cultivation of this grass during twelve successive years 
produced a gradual approximation to and final identification with Waxar. 
The Secretary observed that a paragraph had appeared in some of the 
English papers announcing the arrival at Manchester, per Canal from 
Liverpool, of an “ Enormous Plank,” 144 feet in length, 20 inches in 
breadth, and 6 inches in thickness, said to be “‘ African Oak;” but which 
is doubtless the plank of “ Blue Gum” cut at Long Bay, in D’Entre- 
casteaux Channel, intended for the Great Exhibition, and which, in conse- 
quence of its being too long to be shipped by any of the ordinary vessels 
from this port to London, was subsequently forwarded by the Hmigrant, 
and landed at Liverpool long after the Exhibition had been closed. 
On the motion of Lieut.-Colonel Last, the thanks of the Society were 
voted to the persons who made donations and communications, and the 
meeting broke up. 
8rH Decemper, 1852.—Monthly meeting; Joseph Hone, Esq., senior 
Member of Council, in the chair. 
On the recommendation of the Council, A. H. Palmer, Esq., of Wash- 
ington, U.S., was ballotted for and elected a Corresponding Member of 
the Society. 
