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Dublin Society. In these various capacities he showed remarkable 

 energy in forwarding; the welfare of the institutions with which he 

 was connected, and his p;enerositv, when need arose, could always 

 safely be counted upon. He displayed the same activity and 

 generosity towards antiquarian research, and the Eoyal Society of 

 Antiquaries marked its appreciation of his services in forwarding 

 its aims by electing him President in 1900. 



Wright's sympathetic nature won the affection of those who 

 came in contact with him, and he was keenly desirous of forward- 

 ing younger men's work in science, and generously helped them 

 by all the means in his power. It was a pleasure to him to put 

 his varied and often recondite knowledge of the literature of 

 Natural Science at their disposal. He showed the liveliest appre- 

 ciation of the results obtained by the more modern generation of 

 biologists. As a teacher he was more than ordinarily successful 

 in stimulating the enthusiasm of his students and in implanting in 

 tliem the desire to carry out investigation. At the same time he 

 had a keen interest in his contemporaries in scientific work, and 

 his desire to help the work of otliers and his human sympathies 

 brought him into personal contact with a large number of his 

 colleagues, not only in the British Isles, but also on the Continent 

 and in America. It was always a pleasure to him to speak of 

 these friends, and anecdotes of them formed a feature of his 

 conversation. [H. H. Dixon.] 



June :2nd, 1910. 

 Dr. D. H. Scott, M.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Anniversary Meeting of the 24th May, 

 1910, were read and confirmed. 



Miss Nellie Bancroft, Mr. Sidney Guest, and Mr. Hayward 

 Eadcliffe Darlington, M.A., LL.M. (Cantab.), were admitted 

 Pellows. 



Mr. Anthony Belt, and Prof. Edward Alfred Minchin, 

 M.A.(Oxon.), were proposed as Fellows. 



Mr. Cecil Han bury, Mr. Henry Smith Holden, B.Sc, Mr. Charles 

 William Mally, M.Sc.(Towa), Mr. Sydney Gross Paine, and 

 Mr. Percy Alfred Talbot, B.A.(Oxon.), were elected Fellows. 



The President stated that he had appointed Sir Frank Crisp, 

 Mr. H. W. Monckton, Prof. F. W. Oliver, and Prof. E. B. Poulton, 

 to be Vice-Presidents for the ensuing Session. 



Mr. H. W. Monckton, Treasurer and V.-P., then referred to 

 previous exhibitions of AVitches' brooms or Witch-knots in 

 Conifers ; instancing those by Dr. Masters on 18th March, 1886, 



