30 PKOCBEDINGS OF THE 



The ballots for Council and Officers having been closed at the 

 times laid down in the Bye-Laws, the President appointed Mr. 

 G-. S. Saunders, Mr. Henry Groves, and the Rev. E,. Ashington 

 Bullen to be Scrutineers for both ballots ; and the votes having 

 been examined, the Scrutineers reported to the President, who 

 thereupon declared the result as follows ; — 



Por the Council: — E. Assheton, M.A., V. H, Blackman, M.A., 

 Dr. Gilbert C. Bottrne, Dr. Horace T. Brown, P.R.S,, *Prof. 

 Arthur Dendt, Eev, Canon Powler, M.A., Prof. W. A. 

 Herdman, P.E.S., B. Datdon Jackson, Esq., Horace W. 

 MoNCKTON, P.G.S., Prof. P. W. Oliyer, P.E.S., *Prof. E. B. 

 PouLTON, P.E.S., *Lt.-Col. D. Prain, P.E.S., Clement Eeid, 

 P.E.S., Dr. A. B. Eendle, M.A., *Miss Ethel Sargant, Dr. 

 DuKiNHELD H. ScoTT, P.E.S., *Arthue Everett Shipley, 

 P.E.S., Dr. Otto Stape, Eev. T. E. E. Steering, M.A., P.E.S., 

 and Dr. A. Smith Woodward, ]^.E.S. 



The new Councillors are denoted by a star prefixed ; the five 

 retiring Councillors being : Prank Crisp, LL.B., C. B. Clarke, 

 P.E.S., Prof. J. B. Parmer, P.E.S., Dr. W. G. Eidewood, and 

 D. Sharp, P.E.S. 



The ballot for the Ofiicers was declared as follows : — 



Fresident : Prof. W. A. Herdman, P.E.S. 



Treasurer : Horace W. Monckton, P.G.S. 



r Dr. D. H. Scott, M.A., P.E.S. 

 Secretaries \ Eev. T. E. E. Steering, M.A., P.E.S. 

 B. Daydon Jackson. 



The President then addressing the Eev. Canon ]N'orman, 

 P.E.S., said: — 



" Canon Norman, — It gives me pecuhar pleasure, on the present 

 occasion, to be the mouthpiece of the Linnean Society. The 

 Council has selected you this year as the recipient of the highest 

 honour at their disposal — the award of the Linnean Medal. Tou 

 will be gratified, I know, when you think of the list of distin- 

 guished botanists and zoologists who have preceded you as 

 Medallists, and we are gratified at being able to add your honoured 

 name to that illustrious list. 



" In your presence I find it difiicult to say all that I might as to 

 those high claims to the distinction which the Council recognised 

 in making the award ; but it is customary to make such a state- 

 ment, and I may therefore be permitted to remind those who hear 

 me now, and those who read of this Meeting in our ' Proceedings ' 

 hereafter, that we honour in our Medallist a naturalist who has 

 probably done more than any other man living to make known to 

 Science the Invertebrate Pauna of the seas of North-West Europe. 



