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The Secretary also announced that twenty-five Fellows, three 

 Foreign Members, and one Associate had been elected since the 

 last Anniversary. 



At the Election which subsequently took place, Greorge Bentham, 

 Esq., was re-elected President ; William Wilson Saunders, Esq., 

 Treasurer ; and George Busk, Esq. and Frederick Currey, Esq., 

 Secretaries. The following five Fellows were elected into the 

 Council, in the room of others going out : viz., Beriah Botfield, 

 Esq., M. P. ; Henry Christy, Esq. ; J. E. Gray, Ph.D. ; John 

 Lubbock, Esq. ; and E. C. A. Prior, M.D. 



]Mr. W. F. Saunders, on the part of the Auditors of the Trea- 

 surer's Accounts, read the Balance Sheet, by which it appeared 

 that the total E^ceipts during the past year, including a Balance 

 of £445 25. 5d. carried from the preceding year, amounted to 

 £1817 15s. lid., and that the total Expenditure during the 

 same period (including the purchase of £200 Consols) amounted 

 to £1144 2s. 9d., leaving a Balance in the hands of the Bankers 

 of £673 13s. 2d. 



June 5th, 1862. 

 George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Frederic Francis Hallett, Esq., and WiUiam Henry Kirton, 

 Esq., were elected Fellows. 



The President nominated Thomas Bell, Esq., J. J. Bennett, 

 Esq., J. D. Hooker, M.D., and W. W. Saunders, Esq., Yice- 

 Presidents for the ensuing year. 



The following Papers were read, viz. : — 



1. " Observations on the Gonidia and Confervoid Filaments of 

 Mosses, and on the relation of their Gonidia to those of Lichens 

 and of certain Freshwater Alff^e ;" by J. B. Hicks, M.D., F.E.S. 

 & L.S. (See ' Transactions,' vol. xxiii. Part 3.) 



2. Letter from Mr. Gustav Mann to Sir W. J. Hooker, dated 

 February 27th, 1862, and giving an account of his ascent of the 

 Cameroon Mountains. Communicated by Sir William Hooker, 

 K.H.,F.E.S. &L.S. 



3. " On the Vegetation of the Cameroons ;" by J. D. Hooker, 

 M.D., F.E.S. & L.S. 



