192 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



I know, it has not been previously recorded as occurring in Herefordshire. 



F. L. Blathwayt (Bromyard). 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society of London. 



April 5th, 1894.— Mr. F. Crisp, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. L. Greening was admitted, and Messrs. W. C. Grasby, J. D. Havi- 

 land, J. Smith, and J. F. Wilkinson were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Sir Joseph Hooker, K.C.S.I., C.B., exhibited a portrait in oils of 

 Sir Samuel Bentham, Kt., a Colonel in the service of the Empress of 

 Russia, painted at St. Petersburg in 1784. He was father of George 

 Bentham, the distinguished botanist and former President of this Society, 

 1861—74 (Proc. Linn. Soc. 1886, pp. 90—104). 



Mr. B. Shillitoe exhibited some specimens of a primrose having abnormal 

 leaf-like bracts immediately below the true calyx, and found growing with 

 ordinary flowers of the same species. 



An exhibition of some trap-door spiders and nests, by Mr. F. Enoch, 

 was deferred to a subsequent meeting. 



Mr. R. H. Burne read a paper " On the aortic-arch system of Sacro- 

 branchus" in which he elucidated the method by which respiration is 

 effected in certain fishes which in tropical countries, but more especially in 

 India, have acquired the power of living for a longer or shorter time out of 

 water. Referring particularly to a paper by the late Surgeon-Major Francis 

 Day, " On Amphibious and Migratory Fishes of Asia " (Journ. Linn. Soc, 

 Zool., vol. xiii. p. 198), he detailed the results of some recent investigations 

 he had made, and which were characterised by Prof. Howes as original and 

 valuable. 



The Secretary read a paper, by Mr. H. N. Ridley, "On the Orchidea 

 and Apostacea of the Malay Peninsula," from the Kedah state (long. 99° 30' 

 to 104° 30' lat. 7° N.) to Singapore, including the islands adjacent to the 

 west coast, and those on the east coast of Johore, with the addition of a few 

 from Southern Siam, on the borders of the Malay Peninsula, the entire area 

 comprising about 50,000 square miles. Mr. C. B. Clarke, who criticised 

 the paper, commented upon the important additions made to the existing 

 knowledge of the Orchidea of this region, of which so large a portion was 

 even yet botanically unknown. 



April 19th.— Prof. Stewart, President, in the chair. 

 Sir Joseph Hooker exhibited a portrait in oils of Jeremiah Bentham, 

 father of Jeremy and Sir Samuel Bentham, b. 1710, d. 1792. 



