LINNEAN SOCIETY. QF 
towards the author of the “Cybele” by other feelings than those of 
as is tters which h 
has thought it fit to reprint in the a dix above mentioned, 
d e has re sified. That this 
these pages, I have — treated them as the productions of a botanist 
of acknowledged standing in his special a or hae and have ities 
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criticisms I have on one or two occasions felt it necessary to make, has 
caused me regret, and I protest against the imputation to me, by an 
felt. 
I have no desire to go into the ous explanations” which 
Mr. Watson has made about a matter which, so far as I am con- 
cerned, shall not again be publicly alluded to. Ihave nothing to 
alter and no word to retract in the letter which occupies pp. 196—198 
of the above-mentioned appendix. review, from which Mr. 
Watson has taken the passages—carefully isolated from their context— 
to which he objects, will be found in vol. viii. (1870), pp. 8394—397, 
and ought to have been printed entire in Mr. Watson’s appendix. 
Heyry Tren, 
Proceedings of Socicties, 
Liyyean Socrery. ov. 7th, re --G. Bentham, Esq., F.R.S., 
President, in the chair. The Rev. C. W. Penny was elected a Fellow. 
Two letters from Lady Smith (widow of Sir J. E. Smith, now in her 
ear) were and offering to the Society a letters 
The president exhibited for Mr. M. Alford a “Hen and “Chicken” 
isy found apparently wild near Beiligsitehens The following papers 
were read: ‘‘ Note on the Buds developed on the leaves of a a, 
by G. Di vie M.D. These are — described as formin 
to the leaves, but the specimens examined had only a eae on the 
margin near the tips, though Gey are rather numerous ee crowded 
