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The President said : — 



" .sir Michael Foster, — The presentation of our medal is always 

 a grateful task to the President of this Society ; but it can rarely 

 be so exceptional a privilege as it is on this occasion. I feel that 

 to be the instrument of conferring upon Prof, von Kolliker this, 

 the highest mark of our esteem, is the greatest honour that can 

 fall to my lot dui'ing my tenure of office ; and my satisfaction is 

 lieightened by the remembrance of the kindness that he extended 

 to me years ago, when I was a student at Wiirzburg under the 

 lamented Prof, von Sachs. 



" It is the duty of the President, in presenting the medal, to 

 specify the ground upon which it has been awarded : a duty that, 

 in this case, is little more than a formality, for the name of 

 Kolliker is as a household word among us. It is well that it 

 should be so ; for I recognize that it is altogether beyond my powers 

 to do justice, here and now, to so vast a theme. I would only 

 recall the fact that he is the last survivor of the distinguished men 

 to whose genius we owe the wonderful renascence of Biology that 

 marked the middle of the nineteenth century, and that he has 

 not ceased to enrich zoological science with contributions of the 

 tirst importance in all its departments. His earliest paper was 

 published more than sixty years ago : his most recenc appeared 

 only last month. In the M'hole history of science there can be 

 but few records of more fruitful and long-continued labour. I 

 am using no empt}'' figure of speech when I say that the association 

 of our medal with the name of Kolliker must enhance its value as 

 a scientific distinction in the eyes of all future recipients. 



" Whilst we cannot but regret that he has not found it possible 

 to be with us today, we feel that he could not be more fitly 

 represented than by one of our Fellows who has himself done so 

 much to promote the development of Biology in this country. 

 Prof, von Kolliker has honoured us in the acceptance of our medal ; 

 we are also honoured in his representative. 



" I now hand the medal to your. Sir, requesting you to be so 

 good as to convey it to Prof, von Kolliker, with the respectful 

 homage and the sincere good wishes of the Linnean Society of 

 London." 



The Secretaries laid the Obituary Notices of deceased Members 

 before the Meeting, as follows. 



Edward John" Beale was born in the year 1835, and at the time 

 of his death, January 8, 1902, was senior partner of the firm of 

 Carter & Co., of High Holborn, seedsmen. He entered that 

 firm as a boy of fifteen, and passed the whole of his business life 

 in it. Some years ago he endeavoured to arouse interest in the 

 growth of tobacco in Britain, by a paper read before the Society of 

 Arts on March 4, 1887 (Journ. Soc. Arts, sxxv. 1887, pp. 384-396), 

 and by a small volume entitled • English Tobacco-Growing," which 

 was dedicated by permission to the late Queen Victoria. 



