LIISTKEAN SOCIETY 01" LONDON. IX 



1. " On two species of Guttiferce, Galysaccion siamense, Mig., 

 and a Oarcinia from the East Coast of Africa ;" by Thomas 

 Anderson, M.D., F.L.S. 



2. " Descriptions of some new Genera and Species of Tropical 

 Legicminosce •,^'' by Greorge Beutham, Esq., E.E..S., Pres. L.S. (See 

 ' Transactions,' vol. xxv. part 2.) 



The President announced that a new part of the ' Transactions ' 

 (vol. xxv. part 1), consisting of Mr. Wallace's Paper " On the 

 Phenomena of Variation and Geographical Distribution, as illus- 

 trated by the Papilionidce of the Malayan Hegion," was now 

 ready for distribution. 



May 24, 1865. 



Anniversary Meeting. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



This day, the Anniversary of the Birth of Linnaeus, and the 

 day appointed by the Charter for the Election of Council and 

 Officers, the President opened the business of the Meeting with 

 the following Address : — 



Gentlemen, 

 In laying before you the annual statement of our progress, we 

 have not had to report to you that addition to our funded property 

 which had of late years become usual ; for several important papers 

 requiring expensive illustrations had been read at your meetings, 

 the publication of which the Council considered that they ought 

 not to delay, although entailing more than double the usual out- 

 lay on this head. They accordingly suspended the investments, 

 which in the preceding year had been exceptionally large, and 

 after having published at the usual period a part of the Transac- 

 tions of unprecedented extent, they have now issued an extra part 

 devoted to Mr. Wallace's valuable paper on variation and distri- 

 bution of species, as illustrated by the Papilionidse of the Eastern 

 Archipelago ; and the materials already in hand for the usual 

 issue next November show that our publications for the new year 

 will be fully up to the ordinary average. I am happy to be able 

 to add that our labours in this direction have been so well 

 appreciated in distant lands, that they have procured for us con- 

 siderable additions to our numbers amongst working naturalists 



