Note at bottom of the document indicates that the society "will consider themselves highly indebted" to anyone sending "dissertations, specimens, books, drawings, or other communications; particularly such as tend to illustrate the natural history of Great Britain and Ireland; addressed to Dr. [James Edward] Smith." Smith, one of the three founders of the Linnean Society, served as its president for forty years.
Lists honorary members (4), fellows (173), foreign members (76), and associates (34) of this famed natural history society begun by James Edward Smith, Samuel Goodenough, and Thomas Marsham.
