PROCEEDINGS 



OT THE , 



LTNNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDON. 



(SESSION 1865-66.) 



November 2, 1865. 



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



Arthur, Viscount AValden, Dr. Bhan Dagee, and J. B. Langley, 

 Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Dr. Prior, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of BentJiamia fragifera, 

 with ripe fruit, grown at Tetton House, Kingston, near Taunton. 



It was moved by Mr. Saunders, seconded by Dr. Thomson, and 

 carried unanimously, 



" That this Meeting is desir'ous of recording, at the earliest op- 

 portunity, the sincere and profound regret which it has felt at the 

 death of Sir William Jackson Hooker, who, during so many years 

 had been the acknowledged head of Botanical Science in Britain, 

 the labours of whose life had been devoted to giving at once a 

 scientific and a practical character to the study of the Vegetable 

 Kingdom, not only by his own numerous and valuable works, but 

 by the encouragement and assistance afforded to every working 

 botanist, at home and abroad, with whom he was brought into 

 contact. 



" The Meeting is especially desirous of giving expression to its 

 grateful recognition of the liberality with which Sir William 

 Hooker opened his most extensive Herbai-ium and Library to the 



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