LINNEAN SOCIETY Of LONDON. V 



January 18, 1866. 



G-eorge Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The Eev. Charles Clarke, Daniel Giraud Elliot, Esq., Henry- 

 Guard Knaggs, M.D., "William John MacLeay, Esq., and C. A. 

 Wilson, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Dr. St. Brody, E.L.S., exhibited a packet of "Introduced Plants," 

 collected by liimself during the past year, chiefly in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Gloucester, and a few of which he believed to be new 

 to Britain. 



The following Papers were read, viz. : — 



1. "Elorula of Banda;" by M. P. Edgeworth, Esq., E.L.S. 

 (See ' Botanical Proceedings,' vol. ix.) 



2. " On some new British Polynoina;" by E. Eay Lankester, 

 Esq. Communicated by John Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., E.E.S. & L.S. 

 (See ' Transactions,' vol. xxv. part 3.) 



Bead also two letters, communicated by Dr. Hooker, V.P.L.S., 

 — the one addressed to him by Charles J. Meller, Esq., dated 

 " Bourbon, December 3rd, 1865," and containing some notes on 

 the Botany of the Islands of Bourbon and Madagascar ; the other 

 from Swinburne Ward, Esq., dated " Government House, Sey- 

 chelles, December 5th, 1865," and giving some further information 

 with respect to the " Coco de Mer " {Lodoicea Seychellarum). 



February 1, 1866. 



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



Christopher Edmund Broome, Esq., was elected a Eellow. 



The following Paper was read, viz. : — 



" On some points in the Anatomy of the JEchidna Hystrix','" by 



