126 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Mr. K. I. Marks having seconded the motion, it was put to the 

 Meeting by the President, and carried unanimously. 



The President said that happily there was little in the Report for the 

 past year which called for remark. It had been a satisfactory year, even 

 if in one point it had not been quite what they could wish, for they 

 could not forget that the Report showed that there had been a slight 

 falling off in the number of Fellows during the year. He was sure that 

 no one who had occupied the Chair as he had done for the past three 

 years could have any doubt as to the value of the work done by the 

 Society, which was largely of a kind not done by any other society. He 

 should like, therefore, to ask those present to do what they could towards 

 increasing their numbers during the new year on which they were 

 entering. 



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The Scrutineers having handed in the result of the Ballot, the 

 President declared the following to have been elected : — 



Frfisident—The Right Hon. Lord Avebury, P.C. F.R.S., etc. 



Vice-Presidents— Conrdd Beck ; A. N. Disney, M.A. B.Sc. ; J. W. H. 

 Byre, M.D. F.R.S. (Edin.) : Dukinfield Henry Scott, M.A. Ph.D. 

 F R S F 1 S 



Treasurer— V^Yxme E. Baxter, J.P. F.G.S. F.R.G.S. 



Secretaries— B-ev. W. H. DalHnger, LL.D. D.Sc. D.C.L. F.R.S. F.L.S. 

 F.Z.S. ; R. G. Hebb, M.A. M.D. F.R.C.P. 



Ordinary Members of Council — Jas. Mason Allen : Rev. Edmund 

 •Carr, M.A. F.R.Met.S. : George C. Karop, M.R.C.S. ; Richard Moreland, 

 M.Inst.C.E. : The Riirht Hon. Sir Ford North, P.C. F.R.S. ; Henry 

 Geo. Plimmer, F.L.S. :' Thomas H. Powell ; C. Price-Jones, M.B. (Loud.) ; 

 P. E. Radley : Julius Rheinberg ; Chas. F. Rousselet ; E. J. Spitta, 

 L.R.C.P. (Loud.) M.R.C.S. (Eng.). 



Librarian^-Yercj E. Radley. 



Curator — Charles F. Rousselet. 



The President then delivered his Annual Address, taking as his 

 subject " The Flowering Plants of the Mesozoic Age in the hght of 

 Recent Discoveries," which was illustrated by a large number of excellent 

 lantern slides. 



Dr. Henry Woodward said he had very great pleasure in asking the 

 Fellows of the Society to return their thanks to the President for his 

 admirable address, and to ask him to allow that the same might be 

 printed. They could not but feel exceedingly grateful to Dr. Dukinfield 

 Scott for the admiralile address he had given them, and for the connec- 

 tive tissue by which he had now brought this series of discourses to its 

 completion. He had conducted them from the Angiosperms to the 

 fossil seed-bearing plants of the Coal Period on to the Cycadaces of the 

 Secondary rocks, and these to the higher flower-bearing forms, by a 

 successive series of stages, and had shown them that evening the probable 

 birth-origin of the flowering plants from the Cycads. The very beautiful 

 slides he had exhibited would leave these things strongly impressed 

 upon their memories. The subject of the President's addresses bore 



