Abstract
ON Thursday last the Fellows of the Linnean Society met together in a general meeting, which had been specially convened to consider the disputes which have almost paralysed its work for the past two months. One painful episode which arose out of these disputes has already been alluded to in these columns. This alone gave importance to matters which otherwise it would have been difficult to discuss with patience. But so serious a crisis as the resignation of a president so distinguished as Mr. Bentham brought together a larger meeting of the Fellows than had probably ever assembled together before in the history of the Society, and produced the very decided feeling that at least the prospect of a settlement must be reached before the meeting dispersed.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
The Linnean Society . Nature 9, 357–358 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009357a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/009357a0