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Linnean Society, February 6.—Mr. Carruthers, F.R.S., President, in the chair.—Referring to an exhibition at a previous meeting, Prof. Stewart communicated some interesting observations on the habits of certain seaweed-covered crabs. He also made some remarks on the “pitchers” of Nepenthes Mastersiana, upon which criticism was offered by Mr. Thomas Christy, Prof. Howes, and Mr. J. Murray.—Prof. G. E. Boulger exhibited a series of original water-colour drawings of animals and plants of the Falkland lslands.—Mr. W. H. Beeby exhibited some forms new to Britain of plants from Shetland.—Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., then read a paper on the stamens and setæ of Scirpeæ, illustrated by diagrams, which elicited a detailed criticism from Mr. J. G. Baker, to which Mr. Clarke replied.—A paper was then read by Mr. B. D. Jackson, which had been communicated by the late Mr. John Ball on the flora of Patagonia, prefaced by some feeling remarks by the President, on the loss which the Society had sustained through the recent death of this able botanist.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 41, 405–408 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041405b0
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