34 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Dr. Albert C. L. G. Gunxheb then moved : — " That the 

 President be thanked for his excellent Address, and that he be 

 requested to allow it to be printed and circulated among the 

 Fellows " ; which was seconded by the Eev. T. E. R. Stebbing 

 and carried unanimously. 



On the motion of the President, a telegram of congratulation 

 was sent to the Rector of the University of Upsala in the 

 following words : — 



" Linnean Society of London assembled at Anniversary 

 Meeting congratulates University of Upsala on historic 

 Linnean Celebration." 



The ballots for Council and Officers having been respectively 

 closed at the times required by the Bye-Laws, the President 

 appointed Mr. Henry Groves, Mr. John Hopkinson, and Mr. George 

 S. Saunders Scrutineers. The votes having been counted and 

 reported to the President, he declared the result as follows : — 



For the Council : — Vernon H. Blackman, M.A., Leonard 

 Alfred Boodle, Esq., Prof. Gilbert C. Bourne, Pi-of. Arthur 

 Dendx, D.Sc, Eev. Canon Fowler, M.A., Dr. G. Herbert 

 Fowler, Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.E.S., ProF. James Peter Hill, 

 B. Datdon Jackson, Esq., Horace W. Monckton, F.G.S., Prof. 

 F. W. Oliver, F.E.S., Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.E.S., Lt.-Col. D. 

 Prain, F.E.S., Dr. A. B. Eendle, M.A., Miss Ethel Sargant, 

 Dr. DuKiNEiBLD H. Scott, F.E.S., Dr. Otto Stape, Eoland 

 Trimen, F.R.S., Prof. Frederick Ernest Weiss, and Dr. A. Smith 

 Woodward, F.E.S. ; the retiring Councillors being E. Asshbton, 

 M.A., Dr. Horace T. Brown, F.R.S., Clement Ebid, F.E.S., 

 Arthur Everett Shipley, F.E.S., and the Eev. T. E. E. 

 Stebbing, F.E.S. 



The President then appointed the same Scrutineers to examine 

 the ballot for the Officers, and the votes having been cast up and 

 reported to the President, he declared the result as follows : — 



President : Prof. William Abbott Herdman, D.Sc, F.E.S. 



Treasurer : Horace Woollaston Monckton, F.G.S. 



Secretaries : Dr. D. H. Scott, M.A., F.E.S., 

 Prof. Arthur Dendt, D.Sc, and 

 Mr. B. Datdon Jackson. 



The Secretary then laid before the Meeting, the following papers 

 specially prepared for the celebration of the 200th Anniversary of 

 the birth of Linnaeus on the 13/23rd May, 1707. 



1. A copy of a letter from Linnaeus to Professor Pietro Arduino 

 at Padua, with an introduction by Dr. G. B. De Toni, Hon.F.E.M.S. 

 Communicated by Dr. D. H. Scott, F.E.S., Sec.L.S. 



