PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



November 3, 1864. 

 Greorge Bentbam, Esq., F.E.S., President, iu tbe Chair. 

 Heurj Stevenson, Esq., was elected a Eellow. 

 Tbe following Papers were read, viz. : — 



1. Letters from Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., Grovernor of tbe 

 Mauritius, and Swinburne Ward, Esq., Civil Commissioner, in 

 reply to tbe Memorial of tbe Lincean Society in Marcb last, re- 

 lative to tbe wanton destruction of tbe Double Cocoa-nut, Lodoi- 

 cea Seychella'nion. (See ' Botanical Proceedings,' vol. ix.) 



2. " Observations on some Orcbids of tbe Soutb of Prance ;" 

 by Jobn Treberne Moggridge, Esq. Communicated by tbe Pre- 

 sident, (See ' Botanical Proceedings,' vol. viii.) 



3. " Notes on tbe Cbatbam Islands ;" by Henry H. Travers, 

 Esq. Communicated by W. T. L. Travers, Esq., E.L.S. (See 

 ' Botanical Proceedings,' vol ix.) 



4. " On tbe Grenera Sweetia, Spreng., and Glycine, L., simulta- 

 neously published under tbe name of Lepiolohiwn -^^ by George 

 Bentbam,Esq., Pres. L.S. (See ' Botanical Proceedings,' vol. viii.) 



5. " A brief Account of the Myrmica Kirbii as found in South- 

 ern India;" by Jobn Shortt, M.D., P.L.S. (See 'Zoological 

 Proceedings,' vol viii.) 



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