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■only a small one, it was satisfactory to note that it was on the right side. 

 As regarded the mention in the Report of their exhibit at the Franco- 

 British Exhibition, he should have been very glad to have coupled 

 Mr. Gordon's name with that of Mr. Rousselet, with whom he had been 

 associated in making the arrangements, but with his usual modesty 

 Mr. Gordon had not wished this to be done, and as he was a Member of 

 the Council and one of their Hon. Secretaries it was agreed that the 

 name should be omitted. 



The Motion was then put to the Meeting and carried by acclamation. 



The Scrutineers, having handed in their Report on the result of the 

 ballot, the following gentlemen were declared to have been unanimously 

 elected as Officers and Council of the Society for the ensuing year : — 



President— Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, K.C.B. M.A. LL.D. F.R.S. 

 F.L.S. F.Z.S. 



Vice-Presidents — Frederic J. Cheshire ; Rev. W. H. Dallinger, 

 LL.D. D.Sc. D.C.L. F.R.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. ; The Right Hon. Sir Ford 

 North, P.C. F.R.S. ; E. J. Spitta, L.R.C.P. (Loud.) M.R.C.S. (En?.). 



Treasurer— Wynne E. Baxter, J.P. F.G.S. F.R.G.S. 



Secretaries— R. G. Hebb, M.A. M.D. F.R.C.P. ; J. W. Gordon. 



Ordinary Members of Council — F. W. Watson Baker ; A. N. Disnev, 

 M.A. B.Sc. ; J. W. H. Eyre, M.D. F.R.S. (Edin.) ; Edward Heroii- 

 Allen, F.L.S. F.Z.S. F.R.Met.S. ; Henry Geo. Plimmer, F.L.S. ; Thomas 

 H. Powell ; C. Price-Jones, M.B. (Lond.) ; P. E. Radley ; Julius 

 Rheinberg ; Charles F. Rousselet : F. Shillington Scales, M.A. (Cantab.) ; 

 David J. Scourfield, F.Z.S. 



Librarian — Percy E. Radley. 



( 'urator of Instruments, etc. — Charles F. Rousselet. 



Curator of Slides — F. Shillington Scales, M.A. (Cantab.). 



The President then read his Annual Address, entitled " On Seeds, 

 with Special Reference to British Plants." In this he more particularly 

 •dealt with the seeds of Gymnosperms and Monocotyledons, in continuation 

 of the address of the previous year, in which the seeds of Dicotyledons 

 were considered. At the conclusion of his address the President took 

 the opportunity of thanking the Society and the Council for their 

 courtesy and kindness to himself during his period of office ; especially 

 he wished to thank their Secretaries, Dr. Hebb and Mr. Gordon. He 

 felt all the more grateful to them because, on accouut of important 

 debates in the House of Lords having been fixed for the nights of the 

 Society's Meetings, he was prevented from attending so regularly as he 

 ■could have wished. He might also mention that he had for more than 

 half a century been a Member of the Society, and was, in fact, one of 

 their two or three oldest Members. He congratulated the Society upon 

 having elected as their next President Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, and it 

 was a matter of satisfaction to him to know that his successor in that 

 chair would be one of the most able naturalists in this country and in the 

 world. He hoped the Society would be even more prosperous in the 

 future than in the past. 



