12 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE 



The Senior Secretary having read the Bye-laws governing the 

 elections, — 



The President then opened the business of the day, and the 

 Fellows present proceeded to ballot for the Council and Officers. 



The Ballot for the Council having closed, the President 

 appointed 'Mr. Tlioinas Cliristy, Mr. Herbert Druco, and Mr. E. 

 Morell Holmes, Scrutineers, and the votes having been counted 

 and reported to the President, lie declared the following members 

 to be removed from the Council, viz. : — Mr. II. N. Ridley, Mr. 

 IVancis Darwin, Mr. Charles Baron Clarke, Dr. Maxwell T. 

 Masters, and Prof. H. Marshall W:ird ; and the following to be 

 elected into the Council, viz.: — Mr. John Gilbert Baker, Dr. 

 Robert Braitliwaite, Prof. Dukinfield H. Scott, Mr. George R. 

 M. Murray, and Mr. Alfred W. Bennett. 



The Ballot for the Officers having closed, the President 

 nominated the same Scrutineers, and the votes having been 

 counted and reported, he declared the result as follows : — 



President, Mr. William Carruthers, F.R.S. 



Treasurer, M •. Frank Crisp. 



ri J ■ \ Mr. B. Davdon Jackson. 

 lUecre/aries < ^r -ijr ry ■' ci j 



[ JNJr. U . Percy Sbiden. 



The President then delivered his Address, as follows : — 



An>iversary Address. 



The return of the reputed birthday of Linnseus*, which happ'ly 

 coincides with the birthday of our illustrious patron, brings with 

 it the annual assembly of the Fellows for the discharge of the duties 

 enjoined iu our charter. For the greater part of the Society's 

 history these duties were carried through with a dignified silence 

 that became the distinguished Fellows, who were, in those earlier 

 years, the occupants of this Chair. Thomas Bell ended, in 1854, 

 this taciturnity, and imposed on himself and his successors, and 

 perhaps I should add on tlie Fellows, an annual address, which 

 he intended should be mainly a rcAacw of the year's work and an 

 estimate of the ci ndition of the Society. 



The reports of the Council and the statement of the Treasurer 

 testify that both retrospect and estimate this year are satis- 

 factory. 



It must be a great satisfaction to the Fellows, as it is to me, 

 that the list vi Members, decreased as it is by the death of some 

 and the withdrawal of others, is at the close of the year larger by 

 eleven names than it was a twelvemonth ago, through the 

 election of 40 candidates to our Fellowship. 



* Our Seorctary, Mr. I?. Daydun Jiickson, has sliown in his biography of 

 Liuua-usin tlic- ' Kiicvcl. iiritannica ' tliat tlio Inrtlicliiv was rcallv thi'.2;jrcl nCMar. 



