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epitome of his * Practice of Medicine ;' a ' Practical Treatise on the 

 Diseases of Infancy and Childhood,' of which a second enlarged 

 edition has recently been edited by Dr. Meadows ; and a ' Manual of 

 Clinical Medicine and Physical 'Diagnosis,' which has also been lately 

 re-edited by Dr. Tilbury Pox. 



Dr. Tanner had suffered for years fi'om slight albuminuria and 

 from frequent headaches, which prostrated him occasionally for days 

 together. Last summer he became so ill that he was compelled to 

 give up all work, and he left London for Brighton, where, after a 

 series of convulsive attacks, he died on the 7th of July, 1871. He 

 was elected a FeUow of this Society on the 17th of June, 1869. 



June 6th, 1872. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The President nominated George Busk, Esq., J. D. Hooker, M.D., 

 John Miers, Esq., and W. W. Saunders, Esq., Vice-Presidents for 

 the ensuing year. 



PhUip Brooke Mason, Esq., and Frederick Isaac Warner, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows. 



The following papers were read, viz. : — 



1. " Observations on the Cutaneous Exudation of the Great Water 

 Newt (Triton cristatus)," by Miss Eleanor A, Ormerod. Communi- 

 cated by Andrew Murray, Esq., F.L.S. 



2. " On some recent forms of Lagence from Deep-sea Di'edgings 

 in the Japanese Seas," by F. W. Owen Rymer Jones, Esq. Commu- 

 nicated by H. T. Stainton, Esq., Sec. L.S. 



June 20th, 1872. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The President, before proceeding to the regnilar business of the 

 evening, called attention to the very serioiis loss which the Society 

 had sustained by the death of Mr. Thomas West, who, originallj- 

 engaged as its Messenger and Collector, had, by his intelligence 



