PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEiN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOURTH SESSION, 

 1911-1912.) 



November 2nd, 1911. 



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



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 15th June, 1911, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Mr. "William ISTeiLson Jones, M.A., Mr. Charles Waterfall, and 

 Mr. Richard Siddoway Bagnall were admitted Fellows. 



Mr. James Wales Audas, Mr. Claude Keith Bancroft, B.A., 

 William John Dakin, D.Sc, Miss Ruth Mary Cardew, Mr. John 

 Hughes, Thomas Harvey Johnston, M.A., D.Sc, Robert Laurie, 

 M.B., Ch.B. (Glasg.), B.Sc. (Edin.), AViUiam McRae, B.Sc, Sir 

 Frederick William Moore, M.A., M.R.I.A., Dr. Annie Porter, 

 B.Sc. (Lond.), Albert MaUns Smith, M.A. (Cantab.), Miss Edith 

 Layard Sfepiiens, B.A. (Cape), Miss Elsie Maud Wakefield, and 

 Alfred James Wilmott, B.A (Cantab.), were proposed as Fellows. 



The President read the following reply by Sir Joseph Hooker, 

 in response to the letter of congratulation sent to him from the 

 General Meeting of the 15th June : — 



The Camp, Suniiingdale> 

 \2bth June, 1911.] 

 My dear President, 



The warm congratulations with which I have been greeted 

 by my fellow-members of the Linnean Society on the approach 

 of my 94th birthday have moved me more deeply than I can 

 express. From no other association of scientific labourers could 



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