144 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL MEETING 



Held on the 17th of January, 1900, at 20 Havover Square, W. 

 The President (E. M. Nelson, Esq.) in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of the 20th December, 1899, 

 were read and confirmed, and were signed by the President. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) was 

 read, and the thanks of the Society were voted to the Donors. 



From 

 The Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition, 1876-78, No.] Editorial Committee 

 xxv. Zoology: Thalamorphora, by Hans Riser, No. xxvi.l of the North 

 Zoology : Hydroida, by Kristine Bonnevie. (4to, Chris- ( Atlantic Expedition, 



tiania, Leipzig, London, Paris, 1899) ) 1876-78. 



Doct. J. Bapt. De Toni, Sylloge Algarurn, vol. iv. sec. ii.) m , . „ 



Floridese. (8 vo, Padua, 1900) j 1 he Author. 



The Journal of the Board of Agriculture, vol. vi. No. 3, Dec.) The Board of 



1899. (8 vo, London, 1899) / Agriculture. 



les del Museo Nacional de Montevideo, tomo ii. fas-) Museo Nacional 

 ciculoxii. (8 vo, Montevideo, 1899) f de Montevideo. 



Attention was specially called to the work received from Prof. De 

 Toni as being extremely valuable. 



The President said it was with very great regret that he had to 

 announce the death of their Treasurer, Mr. W. T. Suffolk. This in- 

 formation had come to them as a sudden shock, Mr. Suffolk having been 

 present with them at the last meeting of the Society, apparently in his 

 usual health, but died twelve days afterwards from an attack of influenza. 

 He joined the Society in 1863, and had been a worker all the time. 

 His great work, in addition to acting for some years as their Treasurer, 

 was in connection with the slides in the Society's Cabinet, numbering 

 upwards of 7700, the whole of which he had examined and catalogued, 

 and had remounted many hundreds of them which were found to be 

 leaking or otherwise imperfect. The Council had that evening passed 

 a Eesolution expressing their great sympathy with Miss Suffolk in her 

 loss, and also acknowledging the gift to the Society of her uncle's 

 cabinet of slides representing his life-work. The Eesolution in question 

 was then read to the Meeting, and at the request of the President the 

 Fellows present unanimously endorsed the action of the Council in the 

 matter by show of hands. 



The President, having appointed Messrs. C. L. Curties and F. "W. 

 W. Baker as Scrutineers of the Ballot for Officers and Council for tie 

 ensuing year, pointed out that, in consequence of the death of Mr. Suffolk 

 since the December Meeting, the bye-laws did not permit the Council 



