468 Gelelirte Gesellscliaften. 



Foreign Members and 1 Associate liad died, and 7 Fellows had withdrawn; 

 while 40 new Fellows had been elected. Between purchase, exchange, and 

 donations 383 volumes and 348 separate parts had been added to the Library. 

 The President then delivered his Anniversary Address, commenting generally 

 on the events of the past year, with special reference to their bearing on the 

 Society. The meetings had been unusually well attended , exhibitions and 

 papers read evoking interesting discussions. The publications , in nuinber, 

 nature and sale, were highly satisfactory. The Library had received useful 

 additions, the late Treasurer's (Mr. Currey) bequest of rare volumes being 

 most acceptable. Referring to the removal of the botanical collections of the 

 British Museum to the new building at South Kensington, he congratulated 

 the Trustees on the ample space now given for exhibition in the public 

 gallery. The Herbarium, founded in 1824, had now increased twentyfold, and 

 to the original Banks ian and S 1 o a n e Herbaria had been added that of 

 Shuttl e worth; the American plants of N u 1 1 a 1 1 , Gardner and Miers; 

 the Asiatic plants of Pallas, Horsfield and Wal lieh; the Ferns of 

 J. Smith, and the Mosses and Liverworts of Wilson and Hampe; 

 besides other collections. The Separation from the great Library at Blooms- 

 bury threatened to be a serious drawback, but the Government had liberally 

 provided funds to obviate this difficulty, and some 8000 volumes now form 

 a good nucleus of reference to workers. The Treasury have also consented 

 to the erection of a separate building for specimens preserved in spirit, a 

 most necessary and desirable measure. Passing to Kew Gardens , mention 

 was made of Miss North 's presentation of 615 oil paintings, illustrative of 

 phases of Vegetation, taken by herseif m the eastern and western hemi- 

 spheres. The late Mr. G. C. J o a d 's Herbarium of European plants, the Rev. 

 W. A. Leighton's Lichens, and Mr. H. C. Watson's Herbarium, have 

 been recently added. The Cryptogamic collections have now been brought 

 together and their arrangement improved. A series illustrating the diseases 

 of plants is a desideratum. The great work, 'Genera Plantarum,' wherein 

 Mr. Bentham und Sir J. D. Hooker had laboured for the last twenty 

 years, was now well towards its termination. Already obout 14,500 published 

 genera had been dealt with. As a sequel there will be a new addition of 

 Steudel's , Nomenciator,' the funds for which have been supplied by the 

 munificence of the late Mr. Charles Darwin, Mr. B. D. Jackson undex'- 

 taking its superintendence. The obituary notices of deceased J'ellows were 

 afterwards read by the Secretary , the Society having to deplore , amongst 

 others , the loss of Charles Darwin, Professor Rolleston, Sir C. 

 Wyville Thomson, and their late Treasurer, Mr. Frederick Currey, 

 who had been in office above twenty years , as also the Librarian, Mr. R. 

 K i p p i s t , who had been in the Society's sei^vice over fifty years. The scru- 

 tineers having examined the ballot, then reported that Mr. H. W. Bat es, 

 Professor T. S. Cobbold, Professor P. M. Duncan, Mr. E. M. Holmes, 

 and Sir J. D. Hooker, had been elected into the Council, in the place of 

 Professor All man, Rev. J. M. Crombie, W. S. Dallas, A. Grote, and 

 Professor Lankester, who retired; and for officers Sil- J. Lubbock as 

 President, Frank Crisp as Treasurer, and B. D. Jackson and G. J. 

 Romanes as Secretaries. 



Inhalt: 



JE{,eferate ; 

 Uartig, Lehrb. d. Baumkrankbeiten, p. 463, 

 Möller, Änat. d. Baumrinden, p. 449. 



G}-ele}3.rte Gresellsobaften: 

 Linn. Soc. of London, p. 467. 

 S^rstexnatisolies lulialtsverzeiolxxxiss 

 von Bd. XI. 



BericbtiiTung-. 



Bd. XL p. 284 Zeile 25 von oben lies hinter : Novorum vegetabilium 

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