196 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, 



Linnean Society of London. 



March 19, 1891, Special General Meeting. — Prof. Stewart, President, 

 in the chair. 



Messrs. F. H. P. Coste and A. H. Turnbull were admitted, and 

 Messrs. J. Hagger, W. Koss, and W. D. Wickes were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



The Secretary having read the minutes of the last meeting, the President 

 announced that the sense of the meeting would be taken by ballot on the 

 proposed alteration of certain Bye-Laws, of which due notice had been given 

 as prescribed by the Charter of the Society, and after explaining the nature 

 and object of such alterations, he invited those present to express their 

 opinions. A discussion followed, in which twenty-two of the Fellows took 

 part, and on the votes being counted it was found that a portion only of 

 the proposed alterations were assented to, the remainder being negatived 

 by 40 to 29. 



The following papers were then read : — " Researches on Earthworms 

 belonging to the genus Lumbricus" by the Rev. H. Friend; and "The 

 Hemiptera and Heteroptera of Ceylon," by Mr. W. F. Kirby. 



The meeting then adjourned to April 2nd. 



April 2. — Prof. Stewart, President, in the chair. 



The Rev. E. N. Langham, and Messrs. W. D. Wickes, H. S. Streatfield, 

 and R. W. Phillips were admitted Fellows of the Society. 



The Rev. Prof. Henslow exhibited specimens of Oxalu cernua, Thun- 

 berg, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and gave an interesting account 

 of its introduction into the countries bordering the Mediterranean and the 

 Canaries and Madeira, tracing its present northern distribution so far as 

 he had been able to ascertain it. A discussion followed in which Messrs. 

 A. W. Bennett, C. B. Clarke, W. Bateson, and B. D. Jackson took part. 



Mr. A. B. Rendle, having examined the specimens of "Monchona" 

 exhibited by Mr. Christy at a previous meeting, expressed the opinion that 

 this trade product was the preserved fruit of a palm, belonging to a species 

 apparently undescribed. It was stated somewhat vaguely by the importer 

 to have come from the South Pacific. Mr. Rendle also exhibited another 

 specimen of an orange within an orange, which differed from that shown at 

 a former meeting in that the inner orange possessed a rind, and was not 

 entirely enveloped by the outer one. 



The President exhibited an abnormal specimen of a butterfly 

 (Gonepteryx rhamni) possessing five wings, or two hinder wings on 

 one side. 



