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ape, he said that the greatest difference is usually considered to 

 be in tlio brain, but that in complexity there is very little 

 difFcronce, the furrows and convolutions in the brain of the ape 

 bfing- quite as many as in that of man, but altered a little in 

 shape ; the difference, in size, however, is great. No monkey 

 habitually assumes the erect position, but there are reasons for 

 believing that man has not always walked erect. The rudest 

 savage can draw, and man only lias the power of anticipating 

 alternate movement. 



Finally the question of "the missing link" was discussed, the 

 conclusion arrived at being that if such a link were discovered 

 it would be in the rocks of that cradle of the human race, Central 

 Africa. 



Mr. T. Yaughan Roberts and Mr. J. T. Broad were elected 

 auditors of the accounts for 1892. 



Annxveesary Meeting, 21st Febeuary, 1893. 

 (At Watford.) 



John Hopkinson, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., etc., President, in the 

 Chair. 



The Repoi't of the Council for 1892, and the Treasurer's Account 

 of Income and Expenditure, were read and adopted. 



Sir William Henry Flower, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.S., 

 F.L.S., F.G.S., Pres.Z.S., Director of the Natural History Depart- 

 ment of the British Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, 

 London, S.W., was elected an Honorary Member of the Society. 



The President delivered an Addi-ess on " Charles Darwin." 

 {Transactions, Vol. VII, p. 101.) 



The following gentlemen were duly elected as the Officers and 

 Council for the ensuing year : — 



President— AxthxLY Stradling, M.R.C.S., F.Z.S. 



Vice-Presidents.— ¥roie^sor John Attfield, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 F.I.C, F.C.S. ; the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon; 

 Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., Treas.R.S., V.P S. A. ; 

 John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., F.R.Met.Soc. ; William 

 Ransom, F.S.A., F.L.S. ; C. E. Shelly, M.A., M.D. 



Treasurer. — John Weall. 



Hon. Secretaries. — John Morison, M.D., F.G.S. ; and F. M. 

 Campbell, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., F.E.S. 



Librarian. — W. R. Carter, B.A. 



Curator.— K. E. Gibbs, F.L.S. 



Other Members.— K. P. Blathwayt ; A. T. Brett, M.D. ; Arthur 

 M. Brown, M.A. ; R. B. Croft, R.N., F.L.S., F.R.M.S. ; Upheld 

 Green, F.G.S. ; Augustus Hawks ; Daniel Hill ; T. Vaughan 

 Roberts ; George Rooper, F.Z S. ; John Thomhill, F.L.S. ; the 

 Rev. E. T. Vaughan, M.A. ; Percy Jenner Weir. 



