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health permitted, all that was going on in Ornithological circles^ 

 and among Systematic Botanists, at the Zoological Gardens, or at 

 the Linnean Society ; he was able to take part in the fourth 

 Ornithological Congress in London in 1905, and the last public 

 function he attended was the Evening Reception at the Eooms of 

 our own Society on the 7th June, 1907. 



Our late Tellow's acquaintance with the Island of Malta, its 

 people, languages and history, was such as not many have 

 acquired : he was a Vice-President of the local Archaeological 

 Society, and in 1874 shared in the discovery, through its efforts, of 

 interesting remains of early Christian buildings uear Marsa. 



Latterly, and especially in 1907 (which was his seventy-fourth 

 year), repeated illness and the loss of friends, Charles Baron Clarke 

 and Sir D. Brandis particularly, told on Mr. Wright's naturally 

 vigorous constitution, and an outdoor task which proved beyond 

 his strength resulted in an accident, producing injuries to which 

 he succumbed on the 13th July, 1907. One of his last I'equests 

 was that a flowering spray from au exotic Latliyrus which he had 

 raised in his garden at "Kay hough" (Kew Gardens), where he had 

 lived since 1876, should be sent to a friend who was interested 

 with himself in its determination. [J. E. Dbummokd.] 



June 4th, 1908. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, M.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



On taking the Chair, Dr. Scott thanked the Society for the 

 honour done him, by his election as President. 



The Minutes of the Anniversary Meeting of the 25th May, 

 1908, were read and confirmed. 



The President announced that he had appointed the following 

 to be Vice-Presidents during the current Session — Prof. "W. A. 

 Herdman, F.E.S., Mr. Horace W. Monckton, Treas.L.S., Lieut.- 

 Col. Prain, P.E.S., and Dr. A. Smith Woodward, P.E.S. 



Miss Ethel Louise de Eraiue and Mr. Joseph Hubert Priestley 

 were admitted Fellows. 



Mr, Joseph Pearson, M.Sc, was proposed as a Eellow. 



Mr. Ernest Melville Cutting, B.A. (Cantab.), Mr. Louis Charles 

 Deverell, E.G.S., Mr. James Montagu Prancis Drummond, B.A. 

 'Cantab.), Mr. Charles Aubrey Ealand, Mr. Cecil Hallworth 

 Treadgold, M.A. (Cantab.), and Miss Grace Wigglesworth, M.Sc. 

 (Mane), were severally balloted for and elected PelloAvs. 



