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I cannot help feeling some tinge of I'egret that the days of our 

 friendly controversies are now, in all pi'obability, past and gone. 



Tour -work as the leader of Morphological botany in this 

 country is worthily recognized by the award of our medal, which 

 I have great pleasure in handing you. , 



Prof. F. O. BowEE, having received the Medal from the Presi- 

 dent, replied as follows : — 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, — It would be impossible 

 for me to receive this token of your kind appreciation of my 

 work without some words of thanks, but they shall be brief. 

 I value your gift of the Medal on three grounds. First, that I 

 receive it from the hands of my old friend. Dr. Scott ; and though 

 he and I have differed in the past, on scientific questions (and 

 perhaps even now do not see exactly eye to eye on some of them), 

 still, this has only shonai me the truth of what one learned in 

 the Latin Grammar, that " Amaniium irce amoris integratio est." 

 Secondly, I value the gift as a tangible sign of your good will. 

 There have been figures in the scientific world, that like some great 

 colossus have stood independent of contemporary opiuiou, or 

 definitely opposed to ifc ; but to average men of science the 

 approval of their colleagues acts as a strong incentive to fresh 

 effort, and it is in this way that I receive this award of your medal. 

 Thirdly, I value it because of the distinction of those who have 

 received it before ; it is a high honour to have one's name added 

 to a roll which begins with Hooker and Owen, and includes such 

 names as De Candolle, Huxley, Haeckel, and many others. But 

 inclusion in this list seems to stand as a milestone on the road 

 of seniority ; for the medal has often been awarded towards the 

 close of an active career. Against this may, however, be set the 

 example of its first recipient. Sir Joseph Hooker, who still in his 

 advanced age is actively at work in the interests of the science he 

 has so long served. This example may well be in itself a fresh 

 stimulus to exertion, and as such I shall hold it to be. I thank 

 you. Sir, and the Society very heartily for the high honour con- 

 ferred upon me. 



The General Secretary then laid the Obituary Notices as follows 

 before the Meeting, and the Proceedings closed. 



OBITUAEY NOTICES. 



Lewis Adolphus Bernays was born in London, 3rd May, 1831, 

 son of the late Prof. A. J. Bernays, the chemist, and was educated 

 at King's College School. He was accustomed to speak of him- 

 self as having achieved " a record tenure of the office of Clerk of 

 the Legislative Assembly of Queensland and many years gratuitous 

 service in the cause of economic botany." In 1872 he published 

 " The Olive and its Products, the habits, cultivation, and propa- 



