14 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



During the past year there had been received as Donations to 

 the Library 93 volumes and 200 pamphlets and separate impres- 

 sions of memoirs. From the various Scientific Societies there had 

 also been received 150 volumes and 109 detached parts ; besides 27 

 volumes obtained by excliange and donation from the Editors of 

 independent periodicals. The Council, at tbe recommendation 

 of the Library Committee, had sanctioned the purchase of 150 

 separate volumes and 50 parts of important works. The total 

 additions to the Library were therefore 413 volumes and 359 

 separate parts. (For private Donations, see Appendix.) 



The Chairman (Vice-President) called attention to a picture in 

 oil, from a photograph, of the late Lady Smith (wife of Sir 

 James Smith, our first President) taken in her 100th year, and 

 considered very characteristic. This portrait Mr. Henry Ste- 

 venson, P.L.S., now presented to the Society for its acceptance. 



A Vote of Thanks was passed for this Donation. 



Eeference was also made to tbe Letters of Linnaeus and Ehret 

 already formally presented to the Society at an earlier Meeting 

 in the current Session. (See p. i.) 



Tbe Secretary, on behalf o£ the President, having read the 

 Bye-Laws governing the elections, — 



The Vice-President, in the Chair, then opened the business of 

 the day, and the Fellows proceeded to ballot for the Council and 

 Officers. 



The Ballot for the Council having closed, the Vice-President 

 in the Chair, appointed Mr. Grrut, Mr. Hopkinson, and Mr. 

 Breese, Scrutineers. The votes having been counted and reported 

 to the Vice-President in the Chair, he declared the following 

 Members to be removed from the Council, viz. : — Mr. Alfred W. 

 Bennett, Prof. T. Spencer Cobbold, Mr. Frank Darwin, Mr. 

 Henry E. Dressex*, and Sir J. D. Hooker ; — 



And the following to be elected into the Council, viz. : — 

 Prof I. Bayley Balfour, Mr. AVilliam Carruthers, Mr. W. T. 

 Thiselton Dyer, Lieut.-Col. Godwin-Austen, and Mr. W. Percy 

 Sladen. 



The Ballot for the Officers also having closed, the Vice-Presi- 

 dent, in the Chair, nominated the same Scrutineers. The votes 

 having been counted and reported to the Vice-President, in the 

 Chair, he declared the result as follows, viz. : — President, Sir 

 John Lubbock, Bart., M.P. ; Treasurer, Mr. Frank Crisp ; Secre- 

 taries, Mr. B. Day don Jackson and Mr. Gr. J. Romanes. 



The Vice-President in the Chaii* then delivered his Address 

 (see p. 17). 



Sir J. D. Hooker then moved the following resolution, viz. : — 

 " That the thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-President 



