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gathered by him in a pool near Llyn y Cwn, Caernarvonshire, on 

 June 30, 1828 ; and Dr. Dickie has sent one, for similar division, 

 from Loch of Park, near Aberdeen, where it was gathered by Mr. 

 Sutherland. 



" I do not enter upon a discussion of the characters of these 

 plants, because Messrs. Durieu de Maisonneuve and Gray will 

 publish a paper upon them and other species of Isoetes at an early 

 date. It may, nevertheless, be well to mention that Mr. Gay 

 gives the characters to me as follows : — 



" 1 1. lacustris (L.) ; folia stricta atro-viridia ; macrosporae superficie 



obtuse tuberculatse quasi farinacese. 

 "'J. ecliinospora (Dur.) ; folia molliora patentissima laete viridia, 



senescentia e viridi-flava, macrosporae acutiuscule tuberculatae, 



quasi echinatuhe.' 



" The ' Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr.' viii. 164 is the place where a 

 distinctive name and character were given to the plant. 



" Tours very truly, 



" C. C. Babington." 



2. " Observations on some Skulls from Ceylon, said to be those 

 of Veddahs by George Busk, Esq., F.E.S., Sec. L.S. (See 

 1 Zoological Proceedings,' vol. vi.) 



April 3rd, 1862. 

 George Bentham, Esq , President, in the Chair. 



Percival Forster, Esq., Septimus Holmes Godson, Esq., and 

 James Thomson, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Dr. Cogswell, F.L.S., exhibited a fine specimen of gold-bearing 

 quartz, from the neighbourhood of Halifax, Nova Scotia; and 

 Prof. Tennant exhibited, on the part of the? Government of Nova 

 Scotia, a valuable series of ores and specimens of gold from that 

 Province, and made seme observations upon them. 



The following Papers wen; read :- 



I. "()n the three remarkable Sexual Forms of Catasetum tri- 

 dmtatum,&n Orchid in the possession of the Linnean Society;" by 

 Charles Darwin, Esq., F.B.S., F.L.S., &c. (See 'Botanical Pro- 

 ceedings,' vol. vi.) 



