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arrange for a Special G-eneral Meeting to celebrate the 100th 

 anniversary of the founding of the Society." 



The Senior Secretary read the Obituary notices of deceased 

 Fellows. 



Mr. Edward A. Fitch then proposed that a special vote of 

 thanks be accorded to the President and Officers for their valu- 

 able labours during the Session, and this having been seconded 

 by Mr. H. T. Stainton, was carried. 



June 2nd, 1887. 

 William Caeeuthees, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Anniversary Meeting (24th May) were 

 read and confirmed. 



Prof. Eobert "Wallace, Frederic M. Halford, Esq., Harry 

 Berkeley James, Esq., and Ernest Clarke, Esq., were elected 

 Fellows. 



The President read the Address prepared by the Council, in 

 compliance with the resolution passed at the Anniversary Meeting 

 (24th May), for presentation to the Queen, as follows : — 



" To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. 



" Madam, 



" We, the President, Council, and Fellows of the Linnean 

 Society of London, desire to approach your Majesty with senti- 

 ments of the most loyal attachment, and to tender our dutiful 

 congratulations on the Jubilee of your Majesty's accession to the 

 throne. 



" We rejoice in the great material and moral progress that the 

 country has made under your benignant sway ; and especially as 

 a Society devoted to the advancement of Science, we recognize 

 with the highest satisfaction the immense advance in the know- 

 ledge of nature and the numerous apjilications of science to the 

 amelioration and welfare of the people during the fifty years of 

 your Majesty's reign. 



" We give thanks to God, the Supreme Governor among the 

 nations, for the protection and favour which He has extended to 

 our Country under your Sceptre, and we pray Him to guard and 

 bless your Majesty to your life's end." 



The President nominated Dr. John Anderson, Mr. Frank 

 Crisp, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, and Prof. St. Geo. J. Mivart to 

 be Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year. 



Mr. D. H. Scott showed, under a high microscopic power, the 

 presence of nuclei in Oscillaria and Tolypothrix. He explained 

 that the plants were treated with picronigrosine for two hours, 



