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187S. Presidential Address to the Itoyal Society, 1878. Proc. K. 



Soc. vol. sxviii. p. 43. 

 1881. Presidential Address to the Geographical Section of tho 



British Association, York, 1881. 

 18S9. On Pachytheca. Annals of Botany, vol. iii. 1889, p. 135. 



Upon the conclusion of the Presidential Address the Rev. 

 T. E. E. Stebbixg moved : — 



" That the President be thanked for his excellent Address, and 

 that he be requested to allow it to be pi-inted and circulated 

 amongst the Eellows,'' which, being seconded by Mr. CLBiiENT 

 Eeid, was carried by acclamation. 



In acknowledging the vote of thanks proposed by Mr. Stebbing 

 and seconded by Mr. C. Eeid, the President said that, flourishing 

 and active as the Linnean Society now was, he looked forward to 

 even greater developments during the time of his successor and 

 iu tlie more distant future. The Pellows of the Linnean Society 

 had perhaps even yet hardly realized their position as the first 

 Biological Society of the World. That was a proud and responsible 

 place for a Society to hold, and one which it required an effort to 

 rise to. He should like to see the Society's rooms the recognized 

 meeting place of British Biologists, and their Meetings the 

 occasions when all the new biological discoveries were brought 

 forward, whether destined for publication there or elsewhere. 



The President then addressed Capt. Charles Fbancis Ulla.- 

 THORNE Meek, F.L.S., and handed to him the bronze medal of the 

 Crisp Award for Microscopical Science, and a cheque for the balance 

 of the fund, tliis being the first presentation from the fund fouuded 

 in 1910 by a donation from Sir Prank Crisp, speaking as follows : — 



Captaih^ Meek, 



It is now my welcome duty to present to you the Crisp Award 

 for Microscopical llesearch, of which you are the first recipient. 



The Award was founded two years ago by the generosity of our 

 distinguished and valued Fellow, Sir Prank Crisp, to whose long- 

 continued services in many directions our Society owes so much. 

 I may briefly recall the conditions of the Crisp Award. 



It is to be made at intervals of not less than five years, and is to 

 be given by the Council for the best paper dealing with Micro- 

 scopical Eesearch. The Award is to be confiaed to Fellows aucJ to 

 work published by the Linnean Society since the previous Award, 

 and, in the first case, during the five years previous. The first 

 Award was to be given in May 1912, the date which we have now 

 reached. 



