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!\Ir. William Kickafson J)ykes, M.A. (Oxnii.), L. rs L. (fans), 

 I\lr. Fri'dcrick John l''n'sli\\atcr Sliaw, JJ.Sc, John Wisliart, 

 M.I)., l).8o., Ch.li., and i)r. Otlo Kosfiiheiin. were aihnitled 

 Fellows, 



Mr. (ieorge Pt'ddie ^Miln, .1.1'., was proposed as a Fellow. 



The eertilicate in favour of Mr. ("hintanian iMahader Teinbe, 

 F.R.I I. S., was read for the second time. 



Mr. William Harold J'earsall, M.So. (Maneli.), Mr. Raymond 

 Alfred Finlayson, Mr. Tom Jiussell (loddard, and Mr. William 

 Ileiwy Kitchiii<j:, were elected Fellows. 



The President read the proposcnl alterations in the Rye-Laws 

 Cliaj)ter.-! 1. and XVII. for the second time. 



The rollowing communications in commemoration of Sir .h^SKPit 

 Banks, Jiart., F.R.S., the centenary of whose death falls upon 

 the 19th June, 1!J2U, were read as follows : — 



1. The General Secretary. — Ranks as a Traveller. 



1\ Dr. A. B. Rkndi.ic, F".H.S., Sec.LS.— Ranks as a Patron of 



Science, 

 y. Mr. Ja.mks Bkittkx. — Ranks as a Rolanist. 

 4. The President. — Ranks as a Trustee of the British Museum 



of paramount power. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, 1\R.S., Sir Henry Howarth, F.R.S. (visitor), 

 and Mr. Rritten engaged in a discussion on some of the points 

 raised. (vSee Supplement.) 



The communications were supplemented by the exhibition of 

 the following Ranksiana : — 



Shown hu the Sucietij : Letters, books published or patronised 

 by him; an original water-colour drawing, iiiscribed "The inside 

 of an Iceland House occupied by Sr Joseph J3anks during his 

 residence on the Island with several of its Inhabitants, with Sr 

 Jos, Ranks & Dr. Solander in the dress they wore drawn in the 

 Island 1772." 



Lent hi/ the Royal Socief;/ : A framed caricature of Sir Joseph 

 Danks, with a monstrous fungus developed in his cellar. 



Lent III/ Mr. (x. W. E. Loder : engraving by J. R. Smith after 

 the portrait painted by Reiijamin West, of Ranks in a Tahitan 

 cloak. 



Lent hij ]Mr. (t. W. E, LooKn : Mezzotint by Wm. Dickinson 

 after the portrait painted by Joshua Reyiiolds : with the Horatian 



