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; Proceedings of Soctettes. 
Lannean Socrety or Lonpon. 
November 3, 1881.—Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., in the 
hair.—The Rev. W. Moyle Rogers and the Rev. W. H. Jones 
were elected Fellows of the Society. The President, in announcing 
the death of the Treasurer, Mr. Frederick Currey, spoke of the 
esteem in which he was held, and put the following Minutes of 
Council to the meeting :—‘ That the Council and Fellows of the 
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(Mr. Bentham) and former Secretaries (Mr. Stainton and Mr. 
Mivart), were carried unanimous y.—Dr. Maxwell Masters showed 
Messrs. Veitch’s establishment some years ago between Limatodes 
rosea and Calanthe vestita r. Geo. Bentham then is 
paper, * Notes on the Graminee,” of which the following 18 an 
abstract:—Graminea are so widely diffused, occur in such quan- 
very large number of bad 
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species have been established ; thus, whilst newly described species 
of Orchidee will probably hold their own, many new Urasses must 
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i pointed out this error, and first set forth the lines on 
which the order could best be subdivided, but he had the idea 
; and 
terminology, although Hugo von Mohl has shown the mistake in his 
ideas. The F i 
de Beauveis, published their observations early in this century ; 
the arrangement devised by the last was, however, far too technical 
‘Enumeratio Plantarum,’ containing the Grasses, were done 
rriedly, as he himself bewailed. Kunth carried out Brown’s 
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notions of structure to an absurd extent. Trinius’s ‘ Fundamenta 
