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life was passed in the City of London as a merchant, and amongst 

 other subsidiary diities, he \\as a Director of the Surrey Commercial 

 Dock Company, and at the time of his death, was one of H.M. 

 Lieutenants for the City of London. He was proposed as a 

 Fellow of this Society on the 6th March, 1855, by his brother, the 

 Eev. Edward Tagart, who died a few years later, Edward Newman, 

 and Ji. Wakefield, the election taking place on 1st May of that 

 year. On retiring from business he resided on his estate near 

 Bristol, and his last visit to the rooms of the Society was about 

 two years before his death, when he expressed his intention of 

 making a bequest in favour of the Society. 



The sum thus bequeathed has been invested as a separate fund 

 bearing the donor's name, the income to be applied to the purposes 

 of the Society as the Council may determine from time to time. 



[B. D. J.] 



June 6th, 1912. 



Prof. E. B. PouLTON, r.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Anniversary Meeting of the 24th May, 1912, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Dr. William John Dakin, Dr. Annie Porter, Prof. Alexander 

 Meek, and Mr. William Edward Balston were admitted Fellows. 



Mr. William Henry Daun, M. A. (Cantab.), the Eev. John Stewart 

 Muller, M.A. (Cantab.), Mr. Edwin Percy Phillips, M.A. (Cape), 

 and Mrs. Eleanor Mary Eeid, B.Sc. (Lond.), were severally balloted 

 for and elected Fellows. 



The President read the proposed alterations of Chap. II. Sect. 2 

 and 3 of the Bye-Laws for the second time. 



The President announced that he had appointed the following 

 to be Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year : — Prof. J. Stanley 

 Oabdineb, Mr. Horace W. Monckton, Miss Edith E. Saunders, 

 and Dr. Dukiufield H. Scott. 



Prof. A. Meek read his paper, " On the Development of the 

 Cod, Gadus inorrhua" 



Mr. Charles Hedley read his paper entitled " Paiseogeographical 

 relations of Antarctica." (See p. So.) 



A discussion ensued in which the foUowing took part : — Dr. 

 Otto Stapf, Sec.L.S., Dr. Gr. B. Longstaff (visitor), Mr. Clement 

 Eeid, Mr. T. A. Sprague, Prof. C. Chilton, Dr. Marie Stopes, and 

 Dr. A. Smith Woodward, the author briefly replying. 



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