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LONDON. Linnean Society, May 5.—Dr. A. Günther, F.R.S., President, in the chair.—Dr. Bernard Renault and Prof. Max Carl Wilhelm von Weber were elected Foreign Members of the Society.—A paper was read by Sir John Lubbock, Bart, M.P., F.R.S., on some Spitsbergen Collembola. Owing to the well-known tolerance of cold by insects belonging to this order, it was, he thought, not surprising that several species should occur in Spitsbergen. Eleven species of Collembola had been founch in Greenland, as recorded by Meinert (Vidensk. Meddel., 1896,. pp. 167–173), and five species were already known from Spitsbergen. He was now able to add two more, one of which was new. This he proposed to call Isotoma spitsbergenensts. The second species, Isotoma quadrioculata, had been previously met with in Greenland. Both of these were obtained by Mr. Trevor Battye during Sir Martin Conway's expedition to Spitsbergen in 1896.—Miss Ethel Barton, by permission of the President and Council, read a paper on the structure and development of Soranthera, a genus of brown Algœ (Phœophyceœ) containing a single species, S. alvoidea.—Mr. J. T. Cunningham read a paper dealing with the evolution of animal structure, and entitled “The Species, the Sex, and the Individual.” The general conclusion arrived at by the author was that adaptation was not produced indirectly by selection from indefinite variations, but directly by the influence of stimulation in modifying the growth of the parts or organs of the body.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 58, 141–144 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058141b0
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