LLNNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDOX. 



V 



Read, secondly, " A Glance at the Botany of the North Shore, 

 Sydney;" by William Woolls, Esq. Communicated by the Li- 

 brarian. 



Read, thirdly, " Catalogue of the Dipterous Insects collected 

 by Mr. A. R. "Wallace at Gilolo, Ternate, and Ceram ;" by Francis 

 Walker, Esq., F.L.S. (See " Zoological Proceedings," vol. vi.) 



Read, fourthly, "Description of a (supposed) new Annelid;" 

 by E. Hart Yinen, Esq., M.D., F.L.S. fSee " Zoological Proceed- 

 ings," vol. vi.) 



The alterations in the Bye-laws, proposed by the Council on 

 the 17th of January, having been hung up in the Common Meet- 

 ing-room of the Society, and read by the President at the two last 

 successive General Meetings of the Society, were put to the 

 Ballot, and confirmed by the Eellows at large in the terms of the 

 Charter. (Copies of the modified Bye-laws, embodying these 

 alterations, have been forwarded, by post, to the Eellows residing 

 within the United Kingdom.) 



March 7th, 1861. 



Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Benjamin Carrington, Esq., M.D., was elected a Eellow. 



Mr. Busk, E.R.S., Sec. L.S., exhibited the skull of a child between 

 four and five years of age, procured by Mr. Mann in the moun- 

 tainous region of Eernando Po, and said to belong to a peculiar 

 race of Negroes, inhabiting the higher parts of the island. The 

 skull offered some peculiarities of conformation, which rendered it 

 of considerable interest. 



Read, first, " Notes on Menispermacece, Tiliacece, Bixacece, and 

 Samydacecd ;" by George Bentham, Esq., V.P.L.S. (See "Bo- 

 tanical Proceedings," 2nd Suppl. to vol. v.) 



Read, secondly, " On the Vegetation of Clarence Peak, Fer- 

 nando Po ; with Descriptions of Mr. G. Mann's Plants from the 

 higher parts of that Mountain;" by J. D. Hooker, Esq., M.D., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S. (See " Botanical Proceedings," vol. vi.) 



