l6 proceedings of the 



The Peesident's Anniveesaey Addeess. 



Pellows of the LiNNEAisr Society. — You have heard already 

 from the Treasurer and Secretaries statements referring to the 

 general status of the Society, so that only a few other points 

 remain which are, I think, deserving of your notice. 



Since the last Anniversary there have been published four 

 parts of the Journal of Botany and as many of that of Zoology, 

 together with a special volume of 570 pages, by which all the 

 arrears of Botanical papers for the Journal have been cleared 

 off. Of the Transactions three parts iu Botany and four in 

 Zoology have appeared. The new Catalogue of Books in the 

 Society's Library, and the Proceedings of the previous Session 

 were issued early in the present Session. 



At one of our evening meetings one of my predecessors in 

 this chair, Mr. "W. Carruthers, P.E.S., exhibited a very valuable 

 series of engraved and lithographed portraits of Linnaeus, which 

 he had collected for some years in this country and abroad, 

 accompanying this exhibition with highly interesting remarks on 

 their history and authenticity. Mr. Carruthers has presented 

 this collection to the Society, and the Council has ordered that 

 eight of the portraits which were taken from life should be repro- 

 duced for publication in tlie Proceedings, with the remarks made 

 by the donor. 



The Library has always been the special object of solicitude 

 to the Officers and Council. The appearance of the new edition 

 of the Catalogue has brought home to them, more strongly than 

 before, its steady increase and its growing usefulness. The 

 Council decided that, in order to secure the efficient perform- 

 ance of the duties of this important service, it would be best to 

 hand over all the work connected with it to one member of the 

 staff, to Mr. Kappel, who possesses a thorough acquaintance with 

 the Library, and who, indeed, had before attended to most of the 

 library work proper. This measure affected also the scope of 

 the work of the Library Committee. This Committee has met 

 hitherto at long intervals merely for the purpose of selecting 

 books for recommendation of purchase to the Council. It will 

 now occupy itself with the general management of the Library 

 and consider the Librarian's reports on the work done between 



