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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
AUGUST 3rd. 
John Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair. 
Mr. Dennes read a translation of the report made to the 
Academy of Sciences at Paris, by M. Mirbel, Dutrochet, 
and St. Hilaire, on the structure and development of the ge- 
nerative organs of a species of Marsilea, found by M. Esprit 
Fabre, near Agde. From the Annalcs des Sciences Natu- 
relles. 
SEPTEMBER 7tii. 
J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following communication, accompanied with drawings, 
was read from Mr. R. H. Schomburgk, dated New Amster- 
dam, River Berbice, May 11th, 1837, on what he considered 
to be a new species of Nymphcea, but which the President 
had compared with the specimens of Nymphceaceae in the 
Herbarium of the British Museum, and was satisfied that it 
would form a new group intermediate between Nympfuea and 
j Euryale ; and therefore proposed that Mr. Schomburgk’s in- 
tention of naming it after her present Majesty Victoria 
should be carried into execution, her Majesty hav- 
ing previously granted her permission. It was therefore 
named Victoria Regina, and the Society has adopted this 
plant as its emblem.* Mr. S. describes it thus : — 
Victoria Regina. — Schomburgk. 
N. foliis orbiculatis integerrimis subtus coloratis, supra reticulato 
areolatis, utrinque glabro; nervis venisque subtus prominentis, 
aculeatis. Stigmate multi-radiato. Petiolis teretibus acu- 
leatis. Guiana ad fluv. Berbiceum. 
* See the Plate facing the Title page. 
