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LONDON. Linnean Society, November 1.—Mr.W. Carruthers, F.R.S., President, in the chair.—Prof. Bower exhibited and made remarks upon some adventitious buds on a leaf of Gnetium gnemon.—Mr. John Young exhibited (1) a rare bird (Pluvianellus sociabilis), unobserved for fifty years, and lately rediscovered by him in Patagonia; (2) a cluster of nests formed of lichen (Usnea) by a swift, as supposed of the genus Collocalia, from a cave in Eimeo, one of the Society Islands; (3) remarkably elongated tail feathers of domestic cock (11 feet in length), artificially produced by the Japanese; (4) nest and eggs of the snow bunting (P. nivalis), taken during the past summer in Scotland.—Mr. Thomas Christy exhibited a new method of transmitting light to a microscope by means of a curved rod of glass.—The Rev. R. Baron read a paper on the flora of Madagascar, in which he gave an interesting account of his explorations and collections in that country.—In another paper, entitled “Further Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar,” Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., described the principal novelties brought home by Mr. Baron, and paid a well-deserved tribute to his energy and ability as a botanical explorer.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 39, 71–72 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039071a0
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