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Ridl., .Alsophila maecr oe Baker, Hymenophyllum dejectum Baker, 
Nephrodium brachypodum Baker, gs demeraranum Baker, 
P. roraimense Baker, rs " Kalbr reyert Baker, P. Kookename Jenman, 
P. melanotrichum Baker, G pio a cyclophylla Baker, G. elapho- 
glossoides Baker, 7 teri a (gen. nov.) Campbellit Baker, Acr bis oe 
leptophlebium Baker, Se laginella v vernicosa Baker, S. roraimensis Baker, 
. trhodostachya Baker, Blepharozia Roraime Mitten, spp. nn.). 
LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
May 24th, 1887. .—Anniversary Meeting.—William Carruthers, 
.R.S., President, in the chair.—The famlies read his report of 
the deaths, wathde -awals, and elections of new Fellows for the past 
year. Since the last Anniversary Meeting 17 Fellows had died, or 
ges —_ “sia ascertained, ad withdrawn, and 51 Fellows, 
5 Foreign Members, and 5 Associates had been elected.— The 
President then read his annual address, which was mainly devoted 
wor 
e shall have comiploted the aaigep year of our existence. On 
the 26th of February, 1788, men met in the Marlborough — 
of the Linnean Society. Dr. Smith, the happy possessor of the 
Linnean collections and library, was placed in the chair, a position 
which he occupied for the long period of forty years. Dr. Good- 
appointed the first Librarian. James Dickson, a young rm pe 
from Peebles, with a great love for botany and a ‘critical knowledge 
of British mosses, was also present. He had prospered in busi- 
ness and had a ee in Cove arden. r. Bee a, an 
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1794, and Mr. John  Pimeaks Swainson, of H.M. Customs, 8 
father of the distinguished zoologist, complete the number who 
were present at this first meeting. e seem now far separated 
from that meeting, yet I am pore? to say that we have still with 
us Fellows who were admitted to the Society under its first 
President, and who connect us by a goes link with that small 
- Meeting in the Marlborough Coffee House. . The aoe Leonard 
