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an entliusiastic worker. His knowledge of Ornithology, Botany, 

 and practical Horticulture was considerable, and his large fund 

 of information on almost every branch of natural history made 

 him a sound adviser and a valued guide to all who had the 

 privilege of his acquaintance. 



Elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1845, he was 

 one of the most constant attendants at the meetings up to the 

 time of his death, and was often on its Council. He was elected 

 a Fellow of this Society in 1865, of the Zoological in 1876, and 

 had served on the Council of both. He was also for some time on 

 the Council of the Ray Society, and had been President of more 

 than one local natural history society. Some years ago he had 

 a serious attack of heart disease, from which, however, he rallied 

 in a remarkable manner. From this cause he died very suddenly 

 at his residence at Beckenham, Kent, on March 23rd, 1894. 



June 7th, 1894. 



Mr. Chaeles Bakon Claeke, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Anniversary Meeting were read and con- 

 firmed. 



Messrs. William Edward Baily, Frederick "William Hildyard, 

 and Amadeus Zietz were elected Fellows. 



The President announced that a Bust of Charles Waterton, 

 the Yorkshire Naturalist and author of ' Wanderings in South 

 America,' had been presented to the Society by the trustees of 

 the late Mrs. Pitt Byrne (nee Busk^, This bust was executed in 

 1865 (the year in which he died at the age of 83) by the late 

 Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins. The bust had been accepted by the 

 Council on behalf of the Society. 



The President nominated the following gentlemen to be Vice- 

 Presidents for the ensuing year, viz. : — Mr. John Grilbert Baker, 

 Mr. William Carruthers, Mr. Frank Crisp, and Prof. Charles 

 Stewart. 



Dr. John Lowe communicated the results of observations made 

 by him in Madeira and Teneriffe on the habit of certain insecti- 

 vorous small birds belonging to the genera Sylvia, Fhylloseopus,- 

 and Parus (of which specimens were exhibited) of puncturing 

 the calyces of flowers for the purpose of attracting insects on 

 which they feed. A discussion followed, in which the President^ 

 the E-ev. Gr. Henslow, and others took part. 



Mr. Carruthers exhibited a series of photographs of the 

 celebrated Cowthorpe Oak in Yorkshire, taken at long intervals, 

 commencing with a reproduction of Dr. Hunter's engraving of 

 1776, and made remarks upon the rate of growth and decay and 

 probable duration of life in this tree. 



