LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON, XXVll 



January 2l8t, 18G9. 

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



Dr. Ealph Pawcett Ainsworth; Thomas Henry Farrer, Esq.; 

 , Marmaduko Alexander Lawson, Esq., M.A. ; John Traherne Mog- 

 gridgc, Esq, ; Hildebrand Ramsdcn, Esq., M.A. ; Samuel SaywcU, 

 Esq, ; Frederic Strattou, Esq, ; Shepherd T. Taylor, M.D. ; John 

 Hewitt Wheatley, Esq. ; and Henry S. Worsley-Benison, Esq., were 

 elected Fellows. 



Dr. Masters, F.L.S., exhibited a spray of Holly with orange- 

 coloured berries, on a scion of a yellow-fruited variety grafted on a 

 red-berried stock, from Mr. D. T. Fish, Hardwicke, Bury St. 

 Edmunds. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Palmge Amazonica3 : sive Enumeratio Palmarum in itinere 

 suo per regiones Americae sequatoriales lectarum," auctore Bicardo 

 Spruce, Ph.D. Communicated by the President. 



2. " The Lichens of Ceylon, collected by Dr. Thwaites, F.ll.S. & 

 L.S., Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Peradenia, Ceylon," exa- 

 mined and determined by the Rev. W. A. Leighton, B.A., F.L.S. 



3. " Notes on the Lichens of the Island of St. Helena," by the 

 same. 



4. " On SpJmria tartaricola, a now British Fungus," by the 

 same. 



The Publications of Scientific Bodies received since the last Report 

 (above, p. i) have been the following : — 

 Sweden : — 



Royal Society of Sciences of Upsala. Transactions (Kova Acta), 

 Ser. 3, vi. part 2. 



Dutch Netheblands: — 



Botanical Museum of Leyden. Annales, completion of vol. iii. 



Netherlands Entomological Society. Journal (Tijdschrift voor 

 Entomologie), Ser. 2, iii. parts 2 to 6, iv. part 1. 



Gekmany: — 



Entomological Society of Stettin. Journal (Zeitschrift), 29th 

 year, 1868, n. 1 to 12. 



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