PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OE LONDON 



November 4th, 1856. 



Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The Meeting having been specially summoned for the Election 

 of a Member of Council and of a Treasurer in the place of William 

 Yarrell, Esq., deceased, William Baird, Esq., M.D., was elected 

 into the Council, and Francis Boott, Esq., M.D., was elected 

 Treasurer. 



The President nominated William Wilson Saunders, Esq., to be 

 a Vice-President, in the place of William Yarrell, Esq., during the 

 remainder of the present year. 



A Eesolution of the Council, of the 23rd of October, to the 

 following effect, having been communicated to the Meeting, it was 

 unanimously resolved : " That on this, the first occasion of its 

 meeting since the death of the late Treasurer, William Yarrell, 

 Esq., the Society is desirous of entering on its Minutes an 

 expression of the high sense which it entertains of the personal 

 qualities of that gentleman, of his extensive zoological attain- 

 ments, and of the services rendered by him to the Society during 

 a long period of Fellowship, and especially during the eight years 

 of his Treasurership ; as also of its deep regret at the loss of a 

 colleague so amiable and estimable, and so warmly attached to the 

 interests of the Society." 



Amos Beardsley, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



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