yS I'UOCKEDINliS OF THK 



The Presidont delivered his Address as follows : — 



Peesibknt's Adbhkss. 



It is with yrcat satisfaction that I liave to-day to congratulate 

 the Fellows on another year of continued prosperity and of 

 usefulness. The meetings have been well attended, and the 

 subjects brought before the Fellows have been of great im- 

 ])ortance, and valuable additions to scientific knowledge. 



In Systematic Zoology wo have had submitted to us Dr. 

 Anderson's memoir on the Mammals, Eeptiies, and Batrachians 

 of the Mergui Archi2:)elago, completing the exposition of the 

 collections made by Dr. Anderson in his expedition to these 

 islands, Mr. John H. Leech's account of Lepidopterafrora Ichang 

 in Central Chin;i, and INIr. E. Innes Pocock's descriptions of some 

 Scorpions from the Old World. 



In Anatomy and Morphology we had under our consideration 

 Pruf. AV. Kitchen Parker's Morphology of the Gallinaceee ; 

 Prof. G. B. Howes's memoir on the Intestinal Canal of the 

 Ichthyopsida ; Mr. George Sim's account of the Anatomy of 

 Pallas's Sand-Grouse ; Mr. E. Saunders's memoir on the Tongues 

 of tlie British Hyinciioptera AnthopMla ; Prof. W. Hatchett 

 Jackson's on «ome External Anatomical Characters in Chrysa- 

 lids ; and two memoirs on the External Morphology of the 

 Lepidopterous Pupa by Mr. E. B. Poulton. We had also read 

 to us the llev. J. T. Gulick's account of Intensive Segregation 

 and Divergent Evolution in Land-MoUusca ; Mr. Edw. E. 

 Prince's description of the Protective Provisions in some Larval 

 British Teleosteans, and Mr. E. A. Grimshaw's inquiries into 

 Heredity and Sex in the Honey-Bee. 



In Systematic Botany we had placed before us Further Obser- 

 vations on the Flora of Patagonia by our late Fellow^ Mr. John 

 Ball; Brig.-General Collett and Mr. Hemsley's account of the 

 Plants collected in the Southern Shan States of Upper Burmah ; 

 a Eevision of the British AVillows by Dr. Buchanan White ; 

 Prof. Johnson's memoir on Diclijopteris ; Mr. Massee's Life- 

 History of a Stipitate Freshwater Alga ; and Mr. A. Barclay's 

 memoir on the Lite-History of a Urediue on Jasminum grandi- 

 Jloriun. 



In Morphological and Anatomical subjects we have had sub- 

 mitted to us Sir John Lubbock's memoirs on the Fruit and 

 Seed of e72<y/r<»(/(?(2'. on the presence and functions of Stipules, 

 on tlie Shape of the Leaf of the English Oak, and on the Form of 

 the Leaf of Viburnum; Mr. Spencer Moore's investigation into 

 the true nature of Callus, and his exposition of some Micro- 

 chemical Keactions of Tannin ; Mr. C. B. Clarke's inquiry into 

 tlie Stamens and Sette in (S'cwyeis?; Mr. D. Morris on the Pro- 

 duction of Seed in the Sugar-Cane, and Dr. Fream's Quantitative 

 Examination of the Herbage of Water-Meadows. 



The revenue of the Society has been during the past year the 



