32 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE 



Bonn, May 26, 1905. 



The President of the Linnean Society of London. 

 Honoured Sir, 



I am in receipt, through Sir Dietrich Brandis, of the Gold 

 Medal with which your Society has in so high a degree honoured 

 me. For this valuable and beautiful token I beg to express to you, 

 and through you to the Members of the Society, my heartfelt 

 gratitude. 



Sir Dietrich Brandis has made me cognisant of the very kindly 

 manner in which you, Mr. President, in your address referred to 

 my work. This shall be a new inspiration to me, to the fullest 

 extent to which my powers permit, to devote them with enthusiasm 

 and love to those ideal tasks, the pursuit of which is undertaken 

 in the hope of serving mankind. 



I beg you to receivi', Sir, the expression of my highest esteem. 



Most sincerely yours, 



(Signed) E. Stbasbuegee. 



The Obituary Notices were formally submitted, and the President 

 having announced the date of the next General Meeting, the 

 proceedings closed. 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



John Bibkett was elected a Pellovv on the 16th June, 1846, 

 and died on 6th July, 1904. He entered Guy's Hospital as a 

 student in 1831, there became Lecturer on Surgery, and in 1846 

 brought out a translation of A. von Behr's ' Handbook of Human 

 Anatomy,' and in 1850 a treatise on Diseases of the Throat. The 

 address at the opening of the Medical School of Guy's Hospital in 

 1854 was given by him, and he was also author of articles on Hernia 

 and the Pehis in Hohnes's 'System of Surgery.' [B. D. J.] 



The Eev. Thomas William Daltry was tlie son of a clergyman, 

 and was born at Hull on 7th June, 1832; he was educated 

 at Sedburgh Gi'ammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 graduating B.A. in 1855, ]iroceeding M.A. four years later. In 

 1858 he took Holy Orders, his first curacy being at Petworth, 

 Sussex ; a twelvemonth later he removed to Hambledon, and in 

 1861 to Madeley as Curate to his father ; eighteen years later, 

 upon his father's death, he was appointed his successor, and 

 retained the living till his death. In 1865 the North Staifordshire 

 Field Naturalists' Club \^'as founded, and Mr. Dalti'y became one 

 of the two secretaries from the first, drawing up the annual reports 

 for twenty years ; in 1879-80 he was President. Many of the 

 papers published by this Society are from his pen, but though 

 ready to study any subject connected with the pursuit of natural 

 history, he was specially devoted to Lepidoptera. 



As a Parish Clergyman he was active and hardworking, carrying 

 out his sacred duties in an exemphiry manner, and by constant 



