18 REPORT OF THE 



with the assistance of the Keeper of the Museum, the Council 

 have not thought it requisite to propose a successor to Mr. 

 Kenrick. 



The Honorary Members proposed by the Council for election 

 at this Meeting are, Mr. John Hope Shaw, of Leeds, and Mr. 

 S. P. Woodward, of the British Museum. The former gentle- 

 man is one of the leading members of the Leeds Philosophical 

 Society, and has taken the greatest interest in the proposed 

 plan for the co-operation of all the Philosophical Societies of 

 Yorkshire, of which he is in fact the originator. Mr. Wood- 

 ward's high position as a Zoologist and Paleeontologist, and 

 the interest which he takes in the welfare of this Museum, 

 render his enrolment in the list of Honorary Members particu- 

 larly desirable. Of Foreign Honorary Members, the Council 

 also propose two, namely, Mr. J. D. Dana, the celebrated 

 American Mineralogist and Zoologist, and M. Boucher de 

 Perthes, of Abbeville, who has enriched our Library with 

 several important works, and whose researches into the early 

 history of mankind have lately attracted so much attention. 



Amongst the losses which the Society has sustained during 

 the past year, there are some to which the Council cannot 

 avoid alluding more particularly. The late Lord Londesborough 

 had been for many years a member of the Society, and had 

 contributed with his accustomed liberality to its funds. The 

 Library also is indebted to him for several valuable Antiquarian 

 works, especially the beautiful illustrations of his own collec- 

 tion of Antiquities, contained in the " Miscellanea Graphica." 

 Lord Londesborough was one of the Vice-Presidents of the 

 Society at the time of his death. The death of Earl de Grey 

 diminishes the list of the contributors to the original Building 

 Fund and also that of the Society's Trustees. The Society was 

 likewise indebted to his lordship for the liberality with which 

 he gave up his interest in the land granted to the Society by 

 the Crown, and for a liberal contribution to the Museum 

 Enlargement Fund. Of the Honorary Members the Society 

 has to regret the loss of Sir Thomas Macdougal Brisbane, 

 Bart., who died on the 28th January, in the present year. Sir 

 Thomas entered the army in 1789, when only sixteen years of 



