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ProF. F. E. Wkiss then moved: — "That the President be 

 thanked for his excellent address, and that he be requested to 

 allow it to be printed and circulated amongst the Fellows," which 

 resolution, having being seconded by Mr. H. N. Ridley, was put 

 and carried with acclamation. 



The President liaving acknowledged the vote of thanks, pro- 

 ceeded to addi-ess Dame Helex Gwynne-Vaughak', hauding to 

 her the Trail Award and Medal, lie said : — • 



Dame Heli:^- (T^VYN^;E-VAUGHAN, — 



The Council of the Liiniean Society gives to you the Trail 

 xA.ward and Medal as a mark of its appreciation of the researches 

 in Avliich you are at present engaged on the morphology and 

 cytology of the fungi. For several years you have been a pains- 

 taking worker in cytology, especially in relation to fungi, and 

 your early papers on the Ascomycetes may be particularly men- 

 tioned as itnporlant contrilnitions to our knowledge. Among 

 higher ])hints you have also s'udied to good purpose the vegetative 

 divisions and the meiotic divisions of Vicia Faba. You have not 

 only worked yoiu'self, but have also stiiDulated others to follow 

 the same fruitful course of research, and so have deserved well of 

 our science. The Council looks forward with interest to the earlv 

 publication of your new volume on the fungi, and I have much 

 pleasure in handing to you this award and medal with its best 

 wishes for your continued success. 



The recipient returned her thanks. 



The President then addressed Sir Kay La"nkestee, K.C.B., 

 reciting his services to the study of Zoology, and handing to him 

 the Linnean Medal in gold. He said : — 



Sir Eay Lankestek, — 



The Council of the Linnean Society has awarded to you the 

 Linnean Medal as a token of its admiration for your life-work in 

 the advancement of zoological science. Tou ha\e so completely^ 

 traveisetl the whole field, not touching any subject without 

 adorning it, that it is impossible briefly to enumerate your several 

 services. You began early to combine a stutly of extinct animals 

 Avith those now living, and your pajiers on fossils from the East 

 Anglian Crag deposits and your classic monograph of Pteraspidian 

 and Cepiialas])idian fishes, published half a century ago, are pioneer 

 works that will always retain their valtie. At the same time you 

 devoted close attention to the Protozoa, especially gregarines and 

 blood-parasites, aiul in 1871 you discovered the first known intra- 

 corpuscular parasite (Dre/ianidium) in the frog. Tour early 

 researches on the earthworm and other worms did much to 

 elucidate the significance of the excretory orgaiis (whicli vou 

 named nephiidia), the coelom.and the vascular system iu Annelids. 



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