PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1893-94.) 



J November 2nd, 1893. 



5 Prof. Chaeles Stewart, President, in the Chair. 



^■ The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



■ Mr. Henry Meyners Bernard was elected a Fellow. 



The Meeting having been declared special for the election of 

 t_ a Councillor in the place of Mr. George Brook, deceased, the 

 President announced that the ballot would be taken to fill the 

 vacancy thus caused, and would remain open till 9 o'clock. 



• The President then moved that the thanks of the Society be 



given to Lady Arthur Eussell for the valuable collection of 

 engraved portraits of naturalists which she had been so good as 

 to present to the Society in the name of her husband, the late 

 Lord Arthur E-ussell, and the resolution having been put to the 

 Meeting was carried ^nanimously. 



The President called the attention of the Pellows to the 

 improvement which had been carried out in the Society's 

 apartments by the introduction of the electric light, for which 

 they were indebted to the liberality of their Treasurer, Mr. Crisp, 

 who on former occasions had shown himself so marked a bene- 

 factor to the Society, and moved that the hearty thanks of the 

 Meeting be given to Mr. Crisp for his munificent present. The 

 resolution was carried unanimously. 



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^ The President then referred in suitable terras of regret to the 

 ^removals by death from the Society's roll which had occurred 



\ miring the interval, among which special mention was made of 



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