LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LOXDOX. 6 1 



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THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, COUNCIL, 

 AND FELLOWS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



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We, the President, Council, and Fellows of the Linnean 

 Society ot London, in Anniversary Meeting assembled, remember- 

 ing with heartfelt pride the high distinction which Your Majesty 

 has conferred upon our Society in graciously consenting to become 

 one of our Honorary Members, beg leave humbly to express our 

 profound sorrow at the great and irreparable loss which has 

 befallen Tour Majesty, the Royal House, and the Nation, in the 

 death of our Beloved and Venerated Sovereign Lord, King Edwaiid 

 the Seventh, our Patron, Whose Memory will ever be faithfully 

 cherished by a grateful people. 



Given under the Common Seal of the Society, this twenty-fourth 

 day of May, in the year one thousand nine hundred and ten. 



DUKINPIELD H. SCOTT, President. 

 L. S. ARTHUR DENDY, i ^ . 



B. DAYHON JACKSON, J ^^^''^^«'''^*' 



Mr. Frank Armitage Potts was admitted a Fellow. 



Dr. Wilfred Fade Agar, M.A. (Cantab.), was proposed as a 

 Fellow. 



The Treasurer then brought forward the Annual Cash State- 

 ment to the 30th April last, duly audited, and explained the 

 various items. The statement was thereupon received and adopted 

 (see pp. 62, 6^). 



The General Secretary laid his Annual Report before the 

 Meeting : — 



Since the last Anniversary Meeting 18 Fellows had died, or 

 their deaths been ascertained : — 



William Hadden Beeby. Robert Morton Middleton. 



Thomas William Bridge. The Marquess of Ripon. 



Woodyer Merricks Buckton. Edward Saunders. 



Edward Clapton. George Sharpe Saunders. 



Emmeline Crocker. James Ebenezer Saunders. 



William Henry Dallinger. Richard Bowdler Sharpe. 



William Hillhouse. ArthurErnestBousfield Steains. 



Walter Bessemer Longsdon. Sir Charles Strickland, Bt. 



Peter MacOwau. Edward Perceval Wrieht. 



