Ixxviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Since 1 last noticed our biological publications two valuable and 

 beautifully illustrated but costly Ornithological works, Sclater and 

 Salvin's ' Exotic Ornithology ' and Sharpe's ' Monograph of the 

 Alcedinidae,' have been completed, and various Memoirs by Flower, 

 Mivart, Parker, and others have considerably advanced our know- 

 ledge of the comparative anatomy of various groups of Mammalia. 

 In oui' own country also, as well as on the Continent, the biology 

 of various distant lands has continued to be worked out in memoirs 

 or independent publications, which I had contemplated noticing in 

 succession ; but time obliges me now to stop, and defer to a future 

 occasion the compilation of the notes I had collected on North 

 American, Australian, and other Monographs, Faunas, and Floras. 



The Secretary reported that the following Members had died, or 

 their deaths been ascertained, since the last Anniversary : — 



Fellows. 



Thomas Anderson, M.D. 

 R, Parr Bamber, Esq. 

 Nathaniel Buckley, M.D. 

 Eobert Chambers, Esq. 

 Archdeacon William Hale, M.A. 

 A. H. Haliday, Esq. 



Eev. Charles Hotham. 

 Richard Peek, LL.D. 

 Charles A. Robinson, Esq. 

 J. G. Yeitch, Esq. 

 James Yates, Esq. 



FoKEiGN Members. 

 Moritz Hcrold. | F. A. W. Miquel, M.D. 



Associate. 

 Henry Denny. 



The Secretary also announced that nineteen Fellows and one 

 Foreign Member had been elected since the last Anniversary. 



At the Election which subsequently took place, George Bentham, 

 Esq., was re-elected President ; William Wilson Saunders, Esq., 

 Treasurer; and Frederick Currey, Esq., and H. T. Stainton, Esq., 

 Secretaries. The following five Fellows were elected into the Coun- 

 cil, in the room of others going out : — viz. A. W. Bennett, Esq., 

 F. D. C. Godman, Esq., M. A. Lawson, Esq., S. J. A. Salter, Esq.. 

 the Rev. Thomas Wiltshire. 



Mr. Daniel Hanbury, on the part of the Auditors of the Treasurer's 

 Accounts, read the Balance-sheet, by which it appeared that the total 



