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as early as March 18th this year, a very early date. — John Cordeaux 

 (Eaton Hall, Ketford). 



Garganey near Hastings. — An adult male Garganey, or Summer Teal, 

 Querquedula circia, was shot in the early part of this year in the Pett Level, 

 near Hastings. Mr. William Borrer, in his ' Birds of Sussex' (pp. 438-9), 

 mentions a few examples of this handsome little duck as having been 

 captured in this county, the last recorded specimen having been an 

 immature male, which was shot near Lewes on March 25th, 1870. — 

 Thomas Parkin (Fairseat, High Wickham, Hastings). 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society of London. 



April 6, 1893. — Prof. Stewart, President, in the chair. 



Messrs. F. H. Baker and R. S. Standen were elected Fellows. 



The President took occasion to refer to the great loss which botanical 

 science had sustained by the death, on April 4th, of Professor Alphonse de 

 Candolle, of Geneva, an announcement which was received with profound 

 regret. Prof, de Candolle was the senior Foreign Member of this Society, 

 having been elected in May, 1850, and was the recipient of the Society's 

 Gold Medal in 1889. 



Mr. Clement Reid exhibited and made some remarks upon the fruit 

 of a South-European Maple, Acer monspessulanum, from an interglacial 

 deposit on the Hampshire coast. 



Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, who was present as a visitor, exhibited some rare 

 British plants from the Co. Armagh, and gave an account of their local 

 distribution. 



A paper was then read by Mr. W. B. Hemsley, on a collection of plants 

 from the region of Lhassa, made by Surgeon Capt. Thorold in 1891, and 

 a further collection from the Kuenlun plains, made by Capt. Picot in 

 1892. Some of the more interesting plants were exhibited, and critical 

 remarks were offered by Messrs. C. B. Clarke, J. G. Baker, and Dr. Stapf. 



Dr. H. C. Sorby gave a demonstration with the oxyhydrogen lantern, 

 and exhibited a number of slides which he had prepared of small marine 

 organisms, many of them extremely beautiful, mounted transparently so as 

 to show the internal structure. 



April 20.— Prof. Stewart, President, in the chair. 

 The Rev. A. B. Morris was admitted, and Mr. A. Trevor Battye was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. 



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