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PBOCEEDIKGS OF THE 



Fellows withdrawn (14) 



Eev. "William Jenkins Webb 



Anderson. 

 Dr. Frederic Ilungerford 



Bowman. 

 Hugh Broughton. 

 Fergusson Escombe. 

 Dr. George AVallace Eustace. 

 Rev. Ililderic Friend. 

 Robert Lawrence Heinig:. 



Prof. A. F. Stanley Kent. 

 Robert "Walter Campbell 



kShelford. 

 Thomas R. Sim. 

 Matthew B. Slater. 

 Herbert Stone. 

 David Thomas. 

 William AVhitwell. 



Fellows whose names were ordered by the Council to be 

 removed from the List (2) : — 



Walter Harris Coffin. | James Moore Williams. 



Fellows elected -42, of whom 3G have qualified up to the present 

 time ; also 2 Associates and 1 Foreign Member. 



The Librarian's report was as follows : — 



During the past year tliere have been received as Donations 

 from private individuals 82 volumes and 228 pamphlets. 



From the various Universities, Academies, and Scientific 

 Societies there have been received in exchange, and otherwise, 

 321 volumes and 94 detached parts, besides 76 volumes and 21 

 parts obtained in exchange, and as donations from the editors 

 and proprietors of independent periodicals. 



The Council at the recommendation of the Library Committee 

 have sanctioned the purchase of 193 volumes and 60 parts of 

 important works. 



The total additions to the Tiibrary are therefore 672 volumes 

 and 403 separate parts. 



The number of books bound during the year is as follows : — 

 In full-morocco 3, in half- morocco 225, in half-calf 3, in full- 

 cloth 438, in vellum 58, in buckram 55, in boards and half- 

 cloth 24. Relabelled (half-morocco and cloth back) 44, Total 

 850 volumes. 



The President referred to the losses by death which the Society 

 had sustained during the past year, and especially to the quite 

 recent death of their Foreign Member, Prof. Strasburger, the 

 news of which had only been received the day before. Prof. Stras- 

 burger received the Linnean Medal in 1905, and the Darwin- 

 AVallace Medal in 1908 ; he was the founder and acknowledged 

 leader of modei-n cvtology on its botanical side ; students from 

 all parts of the world frequented his famous laboratory, and to 

 many of his colleagues, like the speaker, he was a valued personal 

 friend. 



The President referred to the end, now so near, of his own 

 term of office, and while regretting for his own sake that the 



