PBOCEEDINGS OF THE 



Anniversary Meeting, May 25th, 1874. 



G-EOEGE Busk, Esq., Vice-President, in tlie Chair. 



After the usual preliminary business the Treasurer read the 

 financial statement, the receipts and payments for the year being 

 as under (see p. xlii). 



The Secretary stated that the death of twelve Fellows of 

 the Society (viz. : — Philip Barnes, Esq. ; Frederic Bird, M.D. 

 Eobert Cole, Esq. ; Henry Deane, Esq. ; J. T. Dickson, Esq., M.B. 

 James Fischer, Esq. ; Rev. Dr. Grarnier, Dean of Winchester 

 Albany Hancock, Esq. ; T. N. E. Morson, Esq. ; J. L. Stewart, 

 M.D. ; Thomas Turner, Esq. ; Francis C.Webb, M.D.) and of three 

 Foreign Members (viz. : — Prof. Louis'Agassiz, F.M.E.S. ; Greorge 

 Eittervon Frauenfeld; Carl Friedrich Meissner, M.D.) had been 

 ascertained to have taken place during the year, that four Fellows 

 (viz. : — A. Adams, Esq. ; Eev. A. E. Cole ; H. Hailey, Esq. ; 

 and J. Shaw, M.D.) had withdrawn and twenty-seven had been 

 elected during the past year. 



The Chairman announced, on the report of the scrutineers 

 appointed for the purpose, that the following gentlemen were 

 elected Officers of the Society for the coming year, viz. : — Presi- 

 dent, Gr. J. Allman, M.D. ; Treasurer, Daniel Hanbury, Esq. ; 

 Secretaries, Frederick Currey, Esq., and St. George J. Mivart, 

 Esq. ; that Eobert Braithwaite, M.D., J. D. Hooker, C.B., 

 M.D., J. G. Jefireys, LL.D., Daniel Oliver, Esq., and W. W. 

 Saunders, Esq., were removed from the Council, and the following 

 five gentlemen elected in their place, viz. : — Major-General 

 Strachey; W. T. T. Dyer, Esq.; J. E. Harting, Esq.; W. P. 

 Hiern, Esq. ; J. J. Weir, Esq. 



It was resolved unanimously : — " That the Secretaries be re- 

 quested to convey to Mr. Bentham the cordial thanks of the 

 Society for his invaluable services throughout the thirteen years 



