RETORTS OF MEETINGS. 
41 
3. Dr. A. Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., etc. 
, 4. Dr. B. Daydon Jackson, Gen. Sec. L.S., R.N.O. (Sweden), etc. 
5. Professor Wm. Bateson, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S., etc. 
Mr. Percy Thompson exhibited a blue Homing Pigeon which had teen 
presented to the Club’s Museum by Major Osman, Officer Commanding the 
Army Messenger Pigeon Service. The bird had been used by the Ger¬ 
mans in Flanders during the War, captured by the British, and employed 
by them, and afterwards brought over to England. 
Mr. Avery exhibited and described a series of nineteen old Essex Maps, 
forming a representative set, of dates ranging from 1575 to 1826. 
Mr. R. Paulson, F.L.S., exhibited and presented to the Club’s herb¬ 
arium a fruiting specimen of Lycopodium clavatum, collected by him in 
Epping Forest in 1884. He remarked that the species appeared now to 
be extinct in the Forest. 
Thanks were accorded to the various exhibitors and donors. 
Mr. Miller Christy, F.L.S., then read a note “ On the Arboreal Habits 
of Field Mice ” (see ante, p. 18). 
Mr. D. J. Scourfield, F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., read a note “ On the recent 
Occurrence of the Fairy-shrimp, Cliirocephalus diaphanus, at Epping.” 
Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc., F.E.S., read some “ Notes on the Life-history of 
Nebria brevicollis,” and showed some lantern-slides in illustration of his 
remarks. 
Messrs. R. Paulson, F.L.S., and Percy Thompson, F.L.S., then gave some 
incidental account of their “ Supplemeptal Report on the Lichens of 
Epping Forest,” the paper itself, on account of its technical nature, being 
taken as read (see ante, p. 27). 
The thanks of the Meeting were voted to the authors of the various 
communications. 
VISIT TO THE APARTMENTS OF THE LINNEAN 
SOCIETY OF LONDON, BURLINGTON HOUSE, 
PICCADILLY. W. (497th MEETING) 
SATURDAY, I5TH FEBRUARY 1919. 
Some 40 Members assembled at the Linnean Society’s Rooms at 2.30 
o’clock in the afternoon, and were received by Dr. B. Daydon Jackson, 
General Secretary of the Society, who had very kindly consented to exhibit 
and to give an account of Linnaeus’s Collections, Herbarium, and Library. 
The Linnean Society of London takes its name, of course, from the 
great Swedish naturalist, Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), ennobled as Carl 
von Linnein 1761. On the death of the younger Linnein 1783, his mother 
and sole executrix offered the whole of the Linnean collections to Sir Joseph 
Banks, who declined to purchase, but advised Mr. James Edward Smith 
( i 759- ][ 828), a young Norwich doctor, then settled in London, to do so. 
Smith agreed, and the collections and books arrived in London in 1784. 
Returning in 1787 from a tour abroad, during which he took his degree 
of M.D. at Leyden, Smith resolved to establish a Society under the name 
of the great Swedish naturalist. A meeting was called for 20th February 
