PATENT

GRANTING AND ASSIGNING

ARMS, CREST, AND SUPPORTERS,

то

THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON.

TO ALL AND SINGULAR to whom these Presents shall come, Sir Isaac Heard Knight, Garter Principal King of Arms, Thomas Lock Esquire, Clarenceux King of Arms, and George Harrison Esquire, Norroy King of Arms, send Greeting: Whereas Alexander M' Leay Esquire hath by Letter represented unto the Most Noble Charles Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, that the King's Most Excellent Majesty hath been graciously pleased by his Royal Charter under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing Date the Twenty-sixth Day of March last, to incorporate several of His Subjects into one Body Politic and Corporate, by the Name of "THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON," for the Cultivation of the Science of Natural History in all its Branches, and more especially of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland; and there being in the said Charter, a Clause, granting perpetual Succession and a Common Seal to the said Society, he therefore, as Secretary to the said Society, requested on the Part of the Council thereof, the Favour of His Grace to issue his Warrant to Garter and the other Kings of

Arms

40 Patent granting and assigning Arms, Crest, and Supporters,

Arms for their devising, granting and assigning such Arms, Crest, and Supporters, as may be proper to be borne by the said Linnean Society of London, on a Common Seal, Shields, Banners, or otherwise, according to the Laws of Arms: And forasmuch as the said Earl Marshal did by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, bearing Date the Seventh Day of December instant, authorize and direct us to devise, grant and assign such Arms and Crest, and that Garter Principal King of Arms do devise, grant and assign such Supporters accordingly; Know ye therefore that We the said Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy, in pursuance of His Grace's Warrant, and by virtue of the Letters Patent of our several Offices, to each of us respectively granted under the Great Seal of Great Britain, have devised, and do by these Presents grant and assign to the said Linnean Society of London the Arms following, that is to say, Per Fess, the Chief per Pale Gules and Vert, the Base Sable; On a Fess Argent, a Hurt, charged with an Egg erect proper: And for the Crest, on a Wreath of the Colours, behind a Mount on which vegetates the Linnæa borealis, the Sun rising in Splendour, all proper; as the same are in the Margin hereof more plainly depicted*. And I the said Garter do hereby grant and assign the Supporters following, that is to say, on the Dexter, a Lion Or, gorged with the Linnæa borealis proper; therefrom a Shield pendant, per Pale Wavy Argent and Ermine, charged with a Rose slipp'd Gules, and a Thistle Fessways proper: And on the Sinister, an Eagle, rising proper, gorged as the Dexter, therefrom a Shield pendant Argent, charged with a Trefoil slipp'd Vert; as also depicted in the Margin hereof: The said Arms, Crest and Supporters, with the Motto " Natura discere Mores," to be borne and used for ever hereafter by the said Linnean Society of London, on a

* Vide Title-page.

Common

Common Seal, Shields, Banners, or otherwise, according to the Laws of Arms. In Witness whereof We the said Garter, Clarenceux, and Norroy, Kings of Arms, have to these Presents sub-. scribed our Names, and affixed the Seals of our several Offices, this Thirteenth Day of December in the Forty-third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c. and in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and two.

OF THE

LINNEAN SOCIETY

OF

LONDON.

1802.

HONORARY MEMBERS.

THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART. K.B.

President of the Royal Society.

GEORGE, MARQUIS OF BLANDFORD.

WILLIAM HENRY, DUKE OF PORTLAND, K.G. Lord President of the Privy Council, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Trust. Br. Mus. THE HON. AND RT. REV. BROWNLOW, LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, Prelate of the Order of the Garter.

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