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LONDON Linnean Society, December 7.—Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., president, in the chair,—The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society:—The Rev. R. Baron, F. O. Bower, T. H. Corry, O. L. Fraser, D. Houston, A. W. Howitt, H. McCallum, E. A. Petherick, S. Rous, and H. C. Stone.—The Rev. R. T. Murray showed specimens of Althæa hirsuta, vicia Orobus, and Phlomis fruticosa, obtained by him last summer in Somerset.—Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer exhibited and explained maps illustrative of the rapid spread of Phylloxera in Spain and Portugal, observing that within the last year quite a wide area of the wine-growing districts therein were affected. He also exhibited photographs and made remarks on the Cinchona cultivation in Ceylon. —Mr. W. B. Espeut drew attention to some Kola nuts, and mentioned their remarkable sobering effects after intoxication by spirituous liquors.—Mr. G. Brook read notes on some little known Collembola and the British species of the genus Tomocerus. Tullberg refers to their occurrence in Sweden, but the four species in question have not hitherto been accorded a British habitat.—A paper by J. G. Otto Tepper was read on the discovery of above ninety species of Tasmanian plants near Adelaide, South Australia.—A contribution by Dr. W. Nylander and the Rev. J. M Crombie was read, viz, on a collection of exotic lichens made in Eastern Asia by the late Dr. A. C. Maingay. Those enumerated were from British Burmah, China, and Japan; some are interesting as illu trative of lichen distribution, and others as new species and varieties.—Remarks on the genera of sub-family Chalcidinæ with synonymic notes and descriptions of new species of Leucospidinæ and Chalcidinæ was a paper by Mr. F. Kirby.—The Rev. R. P. Murray afterwards made some remarks on cleistogamic flowers of Hoya carnosa, producing fertile seed.
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SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES . Nature 27, 167–168 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/027167b0
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