Linnean and Zoological Societies. 2859 



Proceedings of the Linnean Society. 



Anniversary Meeting, May 24, 1850.— R. Brown, Esq., President, in the chair. 



G. R. Dc-dd, Junior, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. F. K. Eagle exhibited a remarkable decumbent variety of Bromus mollis, 

 from the neighbourhood of Lowestoffe, in Suffolk. 



An abstract of the accounts of the past year was read, which exhibited a balance 

 in favour of the Society. 



The following five members of the Council were removed : B. Botfield, Esq., J. 

 Gould, Esq., A. Henfrey, Esq., G. Newport, Esq., and R. H. Solly, Esq. ; and the 

 following five Fellows were elected into the Council in their room : Prof. E. Forbes, 

 E. Lankester, Esq., M. D., E. Newman, Esq., W. Spence, Esq., aud Sir G. Staunton. 

 The following officers were re-elected : R. Brown, Esq., President, W. Yarrell, Esq., 

 Treasurer, J. J. Bennett, Esq., Secretary, and R. Taylor, Esq., Under Secretary. 



June 4, 1850. — R. Brown, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Dr. Lankester gave an account of some peculiar bodies observed on the surface of 

 the common star-wort (Callitriche verna). These bodies were of a stellate form, and 

 consisted of eight cells, seven of which surrounded a central one. They were found 

 on the outside of the plant, on the stem and leaves ; and furnished beautiful objects 

 for examination under the microscope. In the early stages of their growth, they ap- 

 peared to be developed from the ordinary tissue of the plant. They were spheroidal 

 in shape, and attached to the tissue by a broad pedicel beneath. They did not appear 

 to be stomates ; but resembled in their structure the hairs and scales found on the 

 surface of the epidermis in aerial plants. 



Part of a paper ' On the Botany of the Texas ' was read by the Secretary, from 

 W. Bollaert, Esq. The physical geography of the State, and some of the forest-trees 

 were described. 



The President nominated Sir W. J. Hooker, W. Yarrell, Esq., Dr. Horsfield, and 

 Dr. Wallich, Vice-Presidents of the Society. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 



Monthly General Meeting, June 6. — E. J. Rddge, Esq., in the chair. 



W. H. Twentymann, Esq., Dr. G. Fripp, and E. Lomax, Esq., were elected as 

 Fellows. Miss Bertrand, A. N. Armani, Esq., W. Page Wood, Esq., M. P., Richard 

 Blakemore, Esq., M. P., J. Taylor, Esq., J. Thrupp, Esq., and J. P. Stocker, Esq., 

 were proposed as candidates for the Fellowship. 



The Report of the Council stated that the visitors to the Gardens in the month of 

 May, amounted to 39,977, being an increase of 21,658 over the corresponding month 

 of 1849. The visitors from the 1st to the 5th of June amounted to 14,600. 



