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"VVe have tilled the serious gaps in our Hst by the election of five 

 new Foreign Members, three of whom are zoologists and two 

 botanists. Of the zoologists one is M, Alfred Griard, who, like 

 Lacaze-Duthiers whom he replaces, is Professor of Zoology at the 

 Sorboune, and has founded a marine biological station at Wimereux : 

 of him I need only say that he has proved himself to be a fit 

 successor of so great a man. The second is Dr. Hans Jacob 

 Hansen, Assistant in the Zoological Museum of the University of 

 Copenhagen, whose researches upon the Arthropoda, pursued 

 during the past twenty years, have made him a recognized authority 

 upon the morphology of the Invertebrata. The third is Dr. Franz 

 Eilhard Schulze, Professor of Zoology in the Uuiversity of Berlio, 

 a name we may well be proud to have on our list. For more than 

 fiftv years he has been issuing valuable memoirs in all branches of 

 zoological science, ranging from the Protozoa to the Yertebrata, 

 and has been a pioneer in the field of comparative histology. 



Of the botanists, one is Dr. Julius Wiesner, Professor of the 

 Anatomy and Physiology of Plants in the University of Vienna, 

 the doyen of plant-physiologists. The period of Prof. Wiesner's 

 labours covers nearly half a century, and his innumerable publi- 

 cations have added largely to knowledge in the branches of 

 science with which he is especially concerned ; as, for example, his 

 researches on Heliotropism and his investigations of the structui-e 

 of textile fibres and other vegetable products of economic im- 

 portance. The other is Charles Sprague Sargent, Director of the 

 Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, so well known by his 

 monumental and beautiful work, the ' Silva of North America.' 



Passing now to the more purely domestic affairs of the Society, 

 it has become necessary to make some important changes in the 

 personnel of the executive in consequence of the retirement of 

 Mr. J. E. Harting from the post of Assistant-Secretary after 

 fourteen years of useful work. It is a great satisfaction to 

 announce to you that, in accordance with Chap. XII. of the Bye- 

 Laws, the Council have appointed Mr. B. Daydon Jackson to be a 

 Salaried Officer of the Society with the title of General Secretary, 

 to take charge of our administrative business and to represent the 

 Society in such important public work as the International Cata- 

 logue of Scientific Publications. I need hardly remind you of the 

 loyalty and ability with which Mr. Jackson has served the Society 

 for twenty-two years as its Botanical Secretary : I would only 

 congratulate you upon having more completely secured his valuable 

 services. 



It necessarily follows that the Botanical Secretaryship becomes 

 vacant. As you see from the balloting-lists, the Council have 

 nominated Dr. D. H. Scott, F.E.S., for election to this important 

 office, a nomination that will, I am sure, be confirmed by you as 

 cordially as it was made by us. The services rendered to the 

 Society by Dr. Scott in the past have been such as to make it a 

 matter of unqualified satisfaction that he has consented to become 

 one of its Officers. 



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