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are found. Of the Papilionacea I distinguish thirty-eight species 

 belonging to ten genera, many of which are also found in Hiring 

 and Sotzka. The comparison of this Flora with that of Bourne- 

 mouth and with other Tertiary Floras is reserved for further 

 investigations. The most striking fact, however, that my work 

 even at this stage has brought out is, that more than fifty of the 

 species are common to Sotzka and Hsering, while a lesser number 



are common to Sezanne, to the Lignitic of America, and to other 

 Floras. 



Linnean Society of London. 



March 4.— Prof. AUman, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society :— 

 S. M. Bairstow (Huddersfield), J. T. Carrington (Aquarium, West- 

 minster), Prof. P. M. Duncan (King's College, London), E. M. 

 Middleton, jun. (West Hartlepool), S. 0. Ridley (British Museum), 

 and J. Charters- White (Belgrave-road, S.W.) Mr. E. M. Holmes 

 read a paper on C'odiolum gregarium, A. Braun, a new British Alga 

 discovered at Teignmouth by the Eev. E. Cresswell. The author 

 considered that the hypnospores described by Braun did not 

 belong to Cudiolum, but to another Alga usually found growing 

 with it. The growth of the plant and its fructification, contrary to 

 Braun' s supposition, lasts through the winter and spring. Mr. 

 Holmes also exhibited specimens of the fructification of Chatopteris 

 plumosa, found in Britain for the first time by Dr. J. W. Trail of 

 Edinburgh. The unilocular sporangia in this instance were in a 

 more advanced stage than those figured by Areschoug, and the 

 multilocular sporangia differed in character from the illustration 

 given by the last-mentioned Swedish naturalist. 



March 18.— Prof. AUman, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 —Messrs. W. Dnckenfield Scott (Wimbledon) and Wardlaw Earn- 

 say (Portsmouth) were elected FeUows of the Society. The 

 President said that before entering on the ordinary business of the 

 meeting, it became his melancholy duty to announce the death of 



ij ^ 10S * Bel1 ' at tlie age of eighty-seven. Prof. Bell was the 

 oldest Fellow of the Society, having been elected into it in the year 



181o. He had held the Presidential Chair for many years, and 

 under his judicious and able guidance the Society had marvellously 

 advanced in prosperity. He was a distinguished zoologist, and by 

 his researches had largely advanced our knowledge of the fauna of 

 the British Isles. His labours have left their mark on the 

 Zoology of Britain, and it is hard to say who can take his place in 

 the department of Natural History, in which he had shown himself 

 so loving and conscientious an observer. The Secretary read a com- 

 munication from Mr. H. M. Brewer, of the Wanganui Acclimatisa- 

 tion Society, « On the Indigenous Timber and on Plants introduced 

 into JNew Zealand." Among the former, " maraka " ( Lcptospenmim 

 encoul,,) is useful for spokes, tool-handles, &c; "kowkai" 

 [fop*°ra tetraptera) forms admirable material for carving, &"• ; 

 totara {Podocarpus Totara) is most durable for piles, railway 

 sleeper*, &c. ; red birch (Fwjm futca), on account of its strength, 



