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PKOCEEDINGS OF THE 



Council, in the room of others going out, viz : — Eobert Braithwaite, 

 M.D., J, Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., E. MacLachlan, Esq., John Miers, 

 Esq., anfl Daniel Oliver, Esq. 



Dr. Prior, on the part of the Committee appointed to audit the 

 Treasurer's Accounts, read the Balance-sheet, by which it appeared 

 that the total Eeceipts during the past year, including a Balance of 

 .£435 17s. 6d. carried from the preceding year, amounted to 

 .£1656 12s. Id., and that the total Expenditure during the same 

 period, including the purchase of £180 Great Indian Penninsula 

 Eailway Stock, amounted to £1459 3s. 9c?., leaving a balance 

 in the hands of the Bankers of £197 8s. M. 



OBITUAET NOTICES. 



The Secretaries then laid before the Society the following Notices 

 of Deceased Members*. 



William Baied, M.D., F.E.S., F.L.S., was the youngest son of 

 the Eev. James Baird, and was born at the Manse of Eccles, in Ber- 

 wickshire, in 1803. He received his education at the High School 

 of Edinburgh, and afterwards studied medicine and surgery in the 

 University of that city, and at Dublin and Paris. 



In the year 1823 Dr. Baird, having previously made a voyage to 

 the "West Indies and South America, entered the maritime service 

 <^ the East- India Company as surgeon, and remained in that service 

 until 1833: during this period he visited India and China five 

 times, and went also to other countries, and in all his voyages 

 availed himself zealously of the opportunities which his position 

 afforded for studying natural history. In 1829 Dr. Baird assisted 

 in the foundation of the well-known Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 

 to which he was afterwards a frequent contributor. 



On quitting the East-India Company's service Dr. Baird practised 

 his profession in London for some years, until, in 1841, he accepted 

 an appointment in the zoological department of the British Museum, 

 where he remained until his death. 



Dr. Baird's qualifications as a zoologist were of a high order, and 

 his published writings are numerous and excellent; they consist 



* Besides the Fellows and Associates of the Society mentioned in the above 

 Notices, information has been received of the death of Dr. Hugo von Mohl, 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Tiibingen, a Foreign Member of 

 the Society. Dr. v. Molil died on the 11th of April, 1872, but sufficient time 

 has not elapsed for obtaining the particulars necessary for a biographical notice. 



