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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
The learned professor ably illustrated his observation by elegant paintings, the 
property of Mrs. Morrison, the widow of the late celebrated missionary, Dr. 
Morrison. 
BOTANICAL SOCIETY. 
Nov. 2. —John Edward Gray, Esq., F.R.S.,, President, in the chair. — The 
Secretary announced a donation of thirty-six parcels of British plants, presented 
by the members. Also a donation of South-American plants from Mr. W. H. 
White. Some members were elected, and others proposed.—Dr. Francis Bossey 
read a narrative of two very interesting excursions made by several members of 
the Society to Cobham, Kent, during the present year. After animadverting 
on the very vague and indefinite manner in which the place of growth of plants 
is generally described, and stating the advantages which would result from the 
use of the compass in determining the habitats of those which are more strictly 
local, the author proceeded to remark on the more rare and interesting species 
observed during these excursions, and pointed out new localities for Polypogon 
littoralis , Poa distans , P. procumbens , Galium tricorne , Anagallis ccendea , 
Atropa belladonna , Bupleurum rotundifolium , Polygonum maritimum , Ray, 
Chlora perfoliata , Adonis Autumnalis , Papaver hybridum , P. somniferum , 
Marrubium vulgare , Erysimum cheiranthoides , and Orobus tenuifolius , Roth. 
LINNaEAN society. 
Nov. 27.—Professor Don read a paper, illustrated by drawings, descriptive of 
a new genus of the order Bignoniacece , discovered by Capt. Alexander in the 
Great Namaqualand, in South Africa. It grows abundantly on arid Sandy soils, 
to the height of six feet, bearing luxuriant white flowers, and prickly leaves, and 
its stamens are from five to seven in number.—A communication was next read 
by Dr. Glodsky, of Van Dieman’s Land, on a singular and nondescript species of 
Lepidosperma found in that country. It grows only in one or two remote vallies, 
and in one spot formed by a jungle extending nearly half a mile. It is bushy, 
and usually grows from five to ten feet in eight, and its leaves are as many 
feet long. . 
WORCESTERSHIRE NATURAL-HISTORY SOCIETY. 
At a recent meeting of the Worcestershire Natural History Society, Mr. Jabez 
Allies minutely detailed the particulars of a discovery of various fragments of 
Roman sepulchral urns and pans in an extensive stratum of wood ashes, about 
four feet deep beneath the alluvial soil, in a pasture at Bow Farm, Ripple, which 
lies upon the Eastern bank of the Severn-, and which spot is undoubtedly the site 
of Roman pottery-works, upon which are vestiges of a Roman camp. Mr. Allies 
