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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON.
(ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENTH SESSION,
1905-1906.)
JS'ovember 2nd, 1905.
Prof. W. A. Hebdmax, E.E.S., President, in the Chair.
The Minutes of the Greueral Meeting of the loth June were
read and confirmed.
Colonel Arthur Henry McMahon, C.S.I., CLE,, was admitted a
Fellow.
Mr. Jesse Eeeves was elected a Fellow.
Mr. Oakes Ames, A.B., A.M., Harvard; Mr. Edward Archibald
Smith, M.B., F.E.C.S. ; The Et. Hon. William Geoffrey Bouchard
de Montmorency, Viscount Mountmorres ; and Mr. Alfred Douglas
Hardy, were ])roposed as Fellows.
The Eev. George Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., exhibited the tails
of trout and grayling to show the heterocercal origin of the
homocercal tail, by means of the hypural bones which balance the
vertebra turning upward towards the upper lobe.
The Eev. George Hexslow then delivered an address on
'• Plant Oecology, interpreted by direct response to the conditions
of Life." He remarked that Plant Geography and Plant Survej*ing—that
is, Phytotopography—comprise records of the fluctuating
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