LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LOXDOT*. 



M Moreover, a new propagating-house has just been completed, 

 and 25 acres of forest land have already been cleared for the Cin- 

 chona plantations. A very large supply of seeds of the O. Conda- 

 minea, from Loxa, was sent off to India and Ceylon this day. The 

 great planting-out of Cinchonas in the Neilgherries will commence 

 next spring." 



Dr. Hooker, Y.P.L.S., gave an account of Welwitschia mira- 

 bilis, illustrated by drawings, specimens, and sections. This most 

 extraordinary plant was detected in 1859 by Dr. Frederick Wel- 

 witsch near Cape Negro, in Western Africa, and described by 

 him (under the provisional name of " Twmboa ") in the last volume 

 of the Society's 'Journal' {Botany, p. 185-6). The specimens 

 were kindly sent for exhibition by Sir W. J. Hooker, K.H., 

 F.R.S. & L.S., by whom they had been recently received from the 

 discoverer. 



February 6th, 1862. 



G-eorge Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



William Ferguson, Esq., John Daniel Moore, M.D., Henry Scott, 

 M.D., Charles Tyler, Esq., and James Veitch, Jun., Esq., were 

 elected Fellows. 



The following Papers were read : — 



1. "Notes on the Anatomy of the Smynthuridce by John 

 Lubbock, Esq., F.E.S. &L.S. 



Very different opinions have been held by various naturalists as 

 to the true affinities of the Thysanoura, and the position which 

 they ought to hold among the Articulata. Other aberrant groups, 

 however, have been considered worthy of special study; but in 

 the present instance this has not been the case, and the Thy- 

 sanoura have been much neglected. The beauty of their colours, 

 the elegance of their forms, and the frequency of their occurrence 

 have all been unable to tempt our entomologists to the pursuit 

 of animals which cannot be pinned, and are moreover more than 

 suspected of having passed the fatal Rubicon of entomology. 



The Thysanoura consist of two great groups, the Lepisniidce 



