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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society of London. 



Feb. 6, 1890. — Mr. Carruthers, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. H. L. Stonham was admitted, and Mr. T. W. Kirk was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Referring to an exhibition at a previous meeting, Prof. Stewart 

 communicated some interesting observations on the habits of certain sea- 

 weed covered Crabs. He also made some remarks on the "pitchers" of 

 Nepenthes Mastersiana, upon which criticism was offered by Mr. Thomas 

 Christy, Prof. Howes, and Mr. G. Murray. 



Prof. G. S. Boulger exhibited a series of original water-colour drawings 

 of animals and plants of the Falkland Islands. 



Mr. W. H. Beeby exhibited some forms new to Britain of plants from 

 Shetland. 



Mr. C. B. Clarke then read a paper on the stamens and setas of Scirpece, 

 illustrated by diagrams, which elicited a detailed criticism from Mr. J. G. 

 Baker, to which Mr. Clarke replied. 



A paper was then read, by Mr. B. D. Jackson, which had been 

 communicated by the late Mr. John Ball, on the Flora of Patagonia, 

 prefaced by some feeling remarks by the President on the loss which the 

 Society had sustained through the recent death of this able botanist. 



Feb. 20. — W. Carruthers, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Messrs. W. Eagle Clarke and J. H. Veitch were admitted, and Mr. 

 James Jack elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. G. C. Druce exhibited specimens of Agrostis canina, var. Scotica, 

 and a small collection of flowering plants dried after treatment with 

 sulphurous acid and alcohol, and showing a partial preservation of the 

 natural colours of the flowers. 



Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited a series of Coleopterous and Lepidopterous 

 insects, to show the great diversity between insects of the same family. 



The Rt. Hon. Sir John Jjubbock, Bart., M.P., P.C., then gave an 

 abstract of four memoirs which he had prepared — (1) On the fruit and seed 

 of the Juglandice; (2) On the shape of the oak-leaf; (3) On the leaves 

 of Viburnum ; and (4) on the preseuce and functions of stipules. An 

 interesting discussion followed, in which Mr. J. G. Baker. Mr. John Fraser, 

 Mr. D. Morris, and Prof. Marshall Ward took part. 



