Freeman 1694. This first volume of the Linnean Society’s proceedings contains Darwin’s paper ‘On the Action of Sea-water on the Germination of Seeds’ (Botany, pp. 130-40). Also appearing here are the first papers on the collections made by Alfred R. Wallace in Asia: Francis Walker’s ‘Catalogue of the Dipterous Insects collected at Singapore and Malacca by Mr. A. R. Wallace’, ‘Catalogue of the Homopterous Insects collected at Singapore and Malacca by Mr. A. R. Wallace’, ‘Catalogue of the Dipterous Insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo, by Mr. A. R. Wallace’, ‘Catalogue of the Homopterous Insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo, by Mr. A. R. Wallace’ (pp. 4-39, 82-100, 105-136 & 141-175, illustrated with plates). The volume also contains papers by J. D. Hooker (‘On some Collections of Arctic Plants, chiefly made by Dr. Lyall, Dr. Anderson, Herr Miertsching, and Mr. Rae, during the expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin ...’, pp. 114-124), Berthold Seemann (‘On the Palm of Timbuctoo’, pp. 152 -5), and others.