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Staticks,' and a friend and neighbour of Gilbert White), which was exhibited 

 by Mr. G. Murray, an excellent engraved portrait of him was exhibited by 

 Mr. Harting, who made a few remarks upon his life and work. As this 

 portrait was not to be found amongst the 600 eugravings of ' Scientific 

 Worthies,' lately presented to the Library by the late Lord Arthur Russell, 

 he offered it for the acceptance of the Society. 



On behalf of Mr. H. N. Ridley, Director of the Gardens and Forests 

 Department, Singapore, the Secretary read a paper dealing with all the 

 OrchidecB hitherto recorded from Borneo. In the discussion which followed 

 Mr. C. B. Clarke made some interesting remarks on the distribution of 

 these plants in the Indian and Indo-Malay Regions, and on the way 

 in which a knowledge of the species had been gradually acquired and 

 extended. 



On behalf of Mr. R. Spruce (whose unexpected death the Society had 

 recently to deplore), Mr. A. Gepp read a paper on the Hepatica collected 

 by Mr. W. R. Elliott in the islands of St. Vincent and Dominica, and took 

 occasion to describe in some detail the nature and extent of Mr. Spruce's 

 work, which he characterised as a most careful and excellent contribution 

 to botanical science. The paper was accompanied by a series of minute 

 and beautiful drawings. 



January 18th. — Mr. W. Carruthers, F.R.S., V.-P., in the chair. 



Messrs. T. B. Cato, W. Elborne, and R. E. Leach were admitted, and 

 the following were elected : — Sir Hugh Low, Messrs. G. B. Rothera and 

 Thomas Sim. 



The Chairman, before proceeding to the business of the evening, referred 

 to the loss which the Society had sustained by the recent death of 

 Mr. Richard Spruce, who had travelled and collected much in South 

 America, and who was the recognised authority on Hepatica. It was 

 much to be regretted that having but lately presented to the Society a 

 valuable paper on this subject, containing descriptions of a great number 

 of new species, and illustrated with careful and beautiful drawings, he had 

 not lived to see the published result of his labours. 



The Chairman also referred with regret to the death of Mr. Algernon 

 Peckover, of Wisbeach, who had been a Fellow since 1827, and who by 

 his will had bequeathed to the Society a legacy of £100. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes exhibited a flowering specimen of a new species of 

 Cascarilla (C. Thomsoni) and the bark of the tree, from New Grenada ; also 

 two new foreign sea-weeds, Gelidium Beckeri, from South Africa, and 

 Leptocladia Binghamice, from California, and three new British marine 

 Algse, viz. Entophysalis granulosa and Symplaca atlantica, from Swanage, 

 collected by himself, and Vaucheria coronata, from Arbroath, collected by 

 Mr. J. Jack. 



