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

 appeared that the total Receipts during the past year, including a 

 Balance of £651 13s., carried from the preceding year, amounted 

 to £2286 10s. 8d., and that the total expenditure during the same 

 period amounted to £1468 7s. 7d., leaving a Balance in the hands 

 of the Bankers of £818 3s. Id. 



Dr. Boycott called the attention of the Pellows to the desira- 

 bility of rendering the Evening Meetings of the Society more in- 

 teresting; 'and suggested the nomination of a thii-d Secretary, 

 whose duty should be to communicate with the Fellows at large 

 with the view of procuring the Communication of Papers and the 

 Exhibition of Specimens. The suggestions of Dr. Boycott were 

 shortly discussed by Dr. Hooker and other Fellows present, and 

 the President stated that the subject should receive the best at- 

 tention of the Council. 



June 3rd, 1875. 

 Gr. J. Allman, M.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President nominated G-eorge Beutham, Esq., Greorge Busk, 

 Esq., J. D. Hooker, M.D., and J. G. Jeffreys, LL.D., Vice-Presi- 

 dents for the ensuing year. 



Henry Chichester Hart, Esq., Leslie Jones, M.D., and William 

 Phillips, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Professor Dyer, F.L.S., exhibited living specimens o? StepJiano- 

 sphcBra Jluviatilis, Cohn, from Bury Head, county Wicklow ; com- 

 municated by "W. Archer, Esq. 



Dr. Trimen, F.L.S., exhibited specimens oi Zannicliellia poly- 

 pacar, Nolte, from Kirbister Loch, Orkney, sent to him by Dr. 

 Boswell Syme, and of Carex ornitliopoda, "Willd., from Miller's 

 Dale, Derbyshire, collected this spring, by Mr. John Whitehead ; 

 and made some remarks upon their affinities, character, and 

 history. 



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