884 LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
th.—William Carruthers, F.R.S., President, in the chair 
The President, in welcoming the Fellows to the first meeting of 
the new session, made some remarks as to what work had 
done during the recess, and in a Lge tribute commented on the 
loss which Science and the Society had sustained by the death of 
Mr. G. Busk. He afterwards drew attention to stained specimens, 
Ceratium tripos.—Mr. John Murray made further remarks on the 
same, stating that near the Cumbrae Islands immense spuantities 
own observations of the species being found in long chains in the 
ocean, and to Kleb’s opinion that Ceratium was a genus of uni- 
cellular Algee and not an Taniterioan animal, as ordinarily inferred. 
Piceas. He showed that the various forms occurring from the east 
to the west of the continent, which had been hitherto considered 
different species, were cin aes losal varieties of only one species, 
slightly modified according to the altitudes and region they 
inhabited. — There was shown for Mr. W. D’Are y Godolphin 
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peridium left by oe falling off of the spines.—-The only botanical 
paper read was one of a somewhat technical ‘hacker: on the 
Berberidaces of Faved by Mr. Tokutaro Ito, a native of Japan, at 
present studying at Cambridge University. 
OBITUARY. 
We regret to record the death of Mr. C. E. Broome, of Bath, 
which took place on the 15th ult. We shall give an obituary notice 
in an early issue. His herbarium is Sealant to the British 
Museum. 
We have also to record the death, at Cheltenham, on September 
1ith, of Dr. BY oes mere out. Dr. Holl was a careful and 
= We earn with much pleasure that the beanaerion f Oxford has 
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; the earte of tes honoris causa, on our contributor, Mr. 
