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In 1866 Mr. Parker received a Eoyal Medal from the Eoyal 

 Society, and in 1885 the Bayly Medal from the Royal College of 

 Physicians. In 1873 he received the diploma as Member of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons, and was appointed Hunterian Pro- 

 fessor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology. He was elected 

 a Pellow of King's Colleoe, Londou, in 1875. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1875, and he was 

 also a Fellow of the Eoyal, Zoological, and Eoyal Microscopical 

 Societies, Honorary Member of the Philosophical Society of 

 Cambridge and of the Medical and Chirurgical Society. He 

 was also a Member of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of 

 Moscow, and Corresponding Member of the Imperial Geological 

 Institute of Vienna, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. 



Prof. Parker died suddenly, of syncope of the heart, whilst 

 visiting his second son. Prof. W. Newton Parker, at Cardiff, 

 July 3rd, 1890. 



A man of great originality of thought and of indomitable in- 

 dustry, earnest and true in all he undertook, helpful to evex'yone 

 who consulted his vast stores of information, and beloved by all 

 who knew him. The record of his life is a worthy monument of 

 an honest seeker after truth. 



Benjamin Samuel Williams was born in 1824, and was a suc- 

 cessful grower and exhibitor of plants, especially of Orchids. In 

 1851, whilst gardener to Mr. C. B. Warner, of the Woodlands, 

 Ware, he wrote a series of articles on the cultivation of orchids, 

 which became the nucleus,,of his popular work, ' The Orchid- 

 Grower's Manual,' which has gone through six editions. In 

 1854 he started in business in Upper Holloway, at first in con- 

 junction with Mr. Eobert Parker, but latterly with his sou, 

 Mr. Henry Williams, as partner. Much of the text to Warner's 

 ' Select Orchideous Plants,' 1862, was due to Mr. Williams, and 

 he also wrote the descriptions to his own ' Orchid Album,' 1881, 

 a work which is now carried on by his son. He died after a long 

 illness on June 24th, 1890, and was buried at Highgate Cemetery 

 on the 30th of that month. 



Mr. Williams was elected a Fellow of the Society on March 6th, 

 1879. 



June 4th, 1891. 



Prof. Chaeles Stewart, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Harold S. Ferguson, Esq., Arthur Coppen Jones, Esq., Prof. 

 William Somerville, Surgeon-Major Laurence Austin WaddcU, 

 and Prof. Walter Frank Weldou were elected Fellows. 



