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3. Dr. A. Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., etc.
4. Dr. B. Daydon Jackson, Gen. Sec. L.S., R.N.O. (Sweden), etc.
5. Professor Wm. Bateson, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S., etc.
Mr. Percy Thompson exhibited a blue Homing Pigeon which had teen
presented to the Club's Museum by Major Osman, Officer Commanding the
Army Messenger Pigeon Service. The bird had been used by the Ger-
mans in Flanders during the War, captured by the British, and employed
by them, and afterwards brought over to England.
Mr. Avery exhibited and described a series of nineteen old Essex Maps,
forming a representative set, of dates ranging from 1575 to 1826.
Mr. R. Paulson, F.L.S., exhibited and presented to the Club's herb-
arium a fruiting specimen of Lycopodium clavatum, collected by him in
Epping Forest in 1884. He remarked that the species appeared now to
be extinct in the Forest.
Thanks were accorded to the various exhibitors and donors.
Mr. Miller Christy, F.L.S., then read a note "On the Arboreal Habits
of Field Mice" (see ante, p. 18).
Mr. D. J. Scourfield, F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., read a note "On the recent
Occurrence of the Fairy-shrimp, Chirocephalus diaphanus, at Epping."
Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc., F.E.S., read some "Notes on the Life-history of
Nebria brevicollis," and showed some lantern-slides in illustration of his
remarks.
Messrs. R. Paulson, F.L.S., and Percy Thompson, F.L.S., then gave some
incidental account of their "Supplemental Report on the Lichens of
Epping Forest," the paper itself, on account of its technical nature, being
taken as read (see ante, p. 27).
The thanks of the Meeting were voted to the authors of the various
communications.
VISIT TO THE APARTMENTS OF THE LINNEAN
SOCIETY OF LONDON, BURLINGTON HOUSE,
PICCADILLY. W. (497th MEETING)
SATURDAY, I5TH FEBRUARY 1919.
Some 40 Members assembled at the Linnean Society's Rooms at 2.30
o'clock in the afternoon, and were received by Dr. B. Daydon Jackson,
General Secretary of the Society, who had very kindly consented to exhibit
and to give an account of Linnaeus's Collections, Herbarium, and Library.
The Linnean Society of London takes its name, of course, from the
great Swedish naturalist, Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), ennobled as Carl
von Linne in 1761. On the death of the younger Linne in 1783, his mother
and sole executrix offered the whole of the Linnean collections to Sir Joseph
Banks, who declined to purchase, but advised Mr. James Edward Smith
(1759-1828), a young Norwich doctor, then settled in London, to do so.
Smith agreed, and the collections and books arrived in London in 1784.
Returning in 1787 from a tour abroad, during which he took his degree
of M.D. at Leyden, Smith resolved to establish a Society under the name
of the great Swedish naturalist. A meeting was called for 26th February