LIISTNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. Ivii 



3. " On the Vocabulary of Botanical Terms in use in the De- 

 scription of rioweriug-Piants." By Gr- T. Bettany, F.L.S. 



4. " On the Tusks of the Fossil Walrus found in the Eed Clay 

 of Suffolk." By Prof. E. Eay Lankester, F.E.S., P.L.S. 



5. " On an Irregular Species of Amlli/pneustes." By Charles 

 Stewart, F.L.S. 



Anniversary Ileeting. 



May 24th, 1880. 



Prof. G-. J. Allman, M.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



The President, after a few introductory remarks of congratu- 

 lation on the prospects of the Societj^ generally, referred to the 

 Obituary, pointing out that several of the oldest Members would 

 now no longer appear on our List. The former and worthy Pre- 

 sident, Professor Bell, whose works on the British Fauna are 

 classical, had died at the age of 87, and found a resting-place at 

 Selborne. Mr. John Miers, another veteran of 91 years, had left 

 a monument of industry and botanical research iu the many 

 memoirs enriching the Society's ' Transactions,' besides the mono- 

 graphs of the Menispermacese and Apocynacefe, in themselves 

 extensive. General Munro, a gallant otticer and an excellent 

 observer, had left a place difficult to be filled ; for his accurate 

 and wide knowledge of the Graminese was admitted by all, and 

 lie was constantly consulted on the group. Dr. David Moore, of 

 Dublin, had left his mark in valuable researches on the Irish 

 Flora. In Mr. Wilson Saunders the Society had had a worthy 

 aud valuable officer. Mr. E. W. Cooke, B.A., represented Art, 

 bringing his fervent love of natural objects, especially Botany 

 and Geology, to bear in his paintings with truthful effect. 

 Mr. Thomas Atthey of Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, had a 

 more tlian local reputation as an enthusiastic and able naturalist, 

 and, wliile studying several of the lower groups of animal and 

 vegetable life, finally devoted himself to the branch of PaUeouto- 

 logy. The Foreign Members, Prof. J. F. Brandt of St. Peters- 

 burg (zoologist), and the botanists Dr. Ed. Fenzl, of Vienna, and 

 Prof. AV. P. Schimper, of Strasburg, had each a world-wide 

 reputation. 



The President had to regret that, after a full term of service, 

 the Secretaries and Treasurer had projjosed to resign office; and 

 this had been acceded to by the Council as a matter of form. 



The senior Secretary then read his report as follows : — 

 Since the last Anniversary the Society had lost by death 

 the following Members : — 



