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 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, 



Linnean Society of London. 



May 1, 1890.— Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



The Rev. J. Tait Scott was admitted ; and Messrs. J. H. Garrett and 

 John Young were elected Fellows ; Dr. E. von Regel, of St. Petersburg, 

 and Mr. Sereno Watson, of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., being 

 elected Foreign Members. 



Mr. Miller Christy exhibited and made remarks on specimens of the 

 so-called Bardfield oxlip, which he had found growing abundantly not only 

 in the neighbourhood of Bardfield, Essex, but over a considerable area to 

 the north and west of it. 



Mr. Buff ham exhibited under the microscope specimens of Myristrichia 

 claviformis with pluril ocular sporangia, and conjugation of Rhabdomena 

 arcuatum, found upon Zostera marina. 



The Rev. Prof. Henslow exhibited a collection of edible Mollusca, which 

 he had recently brought from Malta, and described the native methods of 

 collecting and cooking them. 



Prof. Stewart exhibited some spirit specimens of a Lizard, in which the 

 pineal eye was clearly apparent. 



Mr. Sherring exhibited a series of excellent photographs, which he had 

 taken near Falmouth, and which showed the effects of climatic influence 

 on the growth of several subtropical and rare plants cultivated in the 

 open air. 



A paper was then read byProf.W.Fream, "On a quantitative examination 

 of Water-meadow Herbage." This was followed by a paper from Mr. R. I, 

 Pocock, " On some Old World species of Scorpions." 



Zoological Society of London. 



May 6, 1890.— Prof. W. H. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of April, and called special attention 

 to two examples of Simony's Lizard, Lacerta simonyi, from the rock of 

 Zalmo, Canaries, obtained by Canon Tristram, and presented to the Society 

 by Lord Lilford. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks upon the stuffed head of an 

 Antelope, shot by Commander R. A. J. Montgomerie, R.N., of H.M.S. 

 ' Boadicea,' in June, 1889, near Malimdi, on the East- African coast, north 

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