LlJfNEAS^ SOCIETY OF LOXDON. 9 



February 7th, 1901. 



Prof. S. H. YiifES, 3I.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting -were read and confirmed. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting having been read and confirmed, 

 the President announced i'rom the Chair the terms of an Humble 

 Address to His Most Gracious Majesty the King as follows, -which 

 was unanimously adopted, all present rising from their seats : — 



To THE KIJS'G'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 



The Humble Address of the PKEsiDEifT. Council, ami Fellows of the 

 LnfNEAK SociEir of London. 



Most Gracious Sovebeign : 



We, the President, Council, and Fellows of the Linnean 

 Society in General Meeting assembled, beg leave to approach 

 Tour Majesty, humbly to express our profound sorrow at the great 

 and irreparable loss which has befallen Tour Majesty and the 

 Koyal House in the recent death of oiu- beloved and venerated 

 Sovereign Lady Queen Ticxoria, our Patron, Whose Memory wiU 

 ever be gratefully cherished by this Society. 



"We are also desirous of expressing the earnest hope that 

 Divine Providence may, in Its Goodness and Mercy, be pleased to 

 bless Tour Majesty with health and length of days, and that 

 Your Majesty's iieign over a loyal and grateful people may be long 

 and glorious. 



The sympathetic interest which Tour Majesty has constantly 

 manifested in aU that concerns the progress of Science, encourages 

 us to hope that Tour Majesty will be graciously pleased to con- 

 tinue to our Corporate Body that beneficent Patronage which 

 it has uninterruptedly enjoyed at the Hands of Tour Majesty's 

 Koyal Predecessors since the granting of the Charter in 1S02. 



Given under the Common Seal of the Society the 7th day of 

 February, Uiul. 



Sidney H. Vines, Fresidcnt. 

 B. Daydon Jackson, ] „ . . 

 G. B. Howes, J 



The President called attention to the fact that the large collec- 

 tions of letters comprising the " Linnean Correspondence "" and the 

 " Swainson Correspondence" had recently been carefully arranged, 

 and specially bound in foHo volumes, the latter series at the cost of 

 the Hon. Walter Kothschild, F.L.S., and that a handsome bookcase 

 for their reception had been presented by Mr. Herbert Druce, 

 F.L.S. A vote of thanks to the donors "was proposed and passed 

 unanimously. 



