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THE annual dinner of the Linnean Society of London was held at the Hotel Washington on October 18. The president, Dr. W. T. Caiman, was in the chair, and the official guests were Sir Richard and Lady Gregory, and Dr. G. F. Herbert Smith. Following the dinner, a reception was held by the president and Mrs. Caiman in the rooms of the Society at Burlington House. Dr. J. F. G. Wheeler, director of the Bermuda Marine Biological Station, gave a lecture, illustrated with coloured lantern slides, on the natural history of Bermuda. A number of zoological and botanical exhibits were shown in the library, including a series of manuscripts and printed documents, from the Society's archives, re lating to the younger Linnaeus, and to his visit to England in 1781-82. The Botanical Department of the British Museum (Natural History) had on view a large series of coloured drawings of fungi of the genus Russula, and a selection of dried plants from British Columbia. Miss F. L. Stephens exhibited cultures and microscopical preparations of two species of the fungal genus Neurospora showing varying degrees of the ‘sub-sexual’ difference known as heterothallism. A selection of coloured fruits and seeds exhibited by the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, attracted much attention. Prof. G. D. Hale-Carpenter showed a series of butterflies with marks on, and mutilations of, the wings caused by the attacks of birds. Capt. J. G. Dollman exhibited a series of skins of certain antelopes showing the uniformity of pattern in the foetal and young animals, with diversity in the adults. Mr. J. Omer-Cooper had on view a living specimen of the crustacean Apus, hatched from mud taken from a pond in the New Forest. This crustacean had not been found in England for about half a century.
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The Linnean Society of London. Nature 134, 656 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134656a0
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