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Society has offered a premium for tlie prosecution of this interesting 

 inquiry. With the encouragement given by that Society and our 

 own, with our London Microscopical Societies, and with such 

 observers as Darwin, M'l^ab, Dickson, and Dyer, and others, in 

 general physiology, and Berkeley, Broome, Currey, Dickie, O'Meara, 

 Ai'cher, and others in Ciyptogamic structure, we may hope that 

 Britain may yet be allowed to distinguish herself in the study of 

 vegetable physiology and anatomy, as she has in that of the ana- 

 tomy of the higher and of the general history of the lower orders of 

 animals. 



It was moved by Dr. Allman, seconded by Dr. Boycott, and 

 carried unanimously, that the Thanks of the Society be given to 

 Mr. Saunders on his retirement from the Office of Treasurer, with 

 an expression of the Society's deep regret on losing his valuable 

 ser\ices in that capacity. 



It was moved by Dr. Hooker, seconded by Mr. Grrote, and 

 unanimously resolved, that the following Address be presented to 

 Lady Smith on the completion of her 100th year on the 11th 

 instant : — 



Deaii Lady Smith, — 



We, the President and Fellows of the Linuean Society of 

 Loudon, assembled at the Anniversary Meeting on the 24th of 

 May, 1873, beg permission most warmly and sincerely to congra- 

 tulate Tom* Ladyship on the completion of the hundredth Anni- 

 versary of Your Ladyship's birth, in health and in the enjoyment 

 of all your faculties. The rare occurrence of such an event, so 

 happily completed, gives a striking testimony of the value of a 

 good constitution, combined with a quiet, useful, and peaceable 

 life, and with sustained activity and intelligence of mind, in pro- 

 longing life, and in rendering its continuance desirable. We re- 

 joice that it has been given to the Widow of our excellent 

 Founder and first President, to whose zeal, energy, and devo- 

 tion we are indebted for our existence, and for the most valu- 

 able part of our collections, to survive to so great an age, and to 

 testify by her continued interest in the Society, and more parti- 

 cularly by her recent present of numerous and valuable Letters, 



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