LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LOXDOX. 3 



December 1st, 1892. 



Prof. Chables Stewabt, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Arthur Pliilip Green, Mr. Albert Frank Stanley Kent, 

 the Rev. Andrew Bayne Morris, Mr. Horace Woollaston 

 Moiickton, and Mr. Frederick Gymer Parsons were elected 

 Fellows. 



The President read a letter of thanks from the Rev. L. Blome- 

 field, in reply to the congratulatory Address which had been voted 

 to him and signed by the Fellows at the last Meeting, as 

 follows : — 



" Belmont, Bath, November 22iid, 1892. 



" Mt dear Mr. Harting, 



" Thank you very miich for your letter received on 

 Saturday, and yet more for the very valuable congratulatory 

 Address from the Members of the Linnean Society generally, 

 which came safe to hand yesterday evening. In respect of this 

 last, I hardly know in what terms to make any adequate reply, or 

 therein express what I feel in the way of gratitude and thank- 

 fulness for so high a mark of esteem on the part of the Society 

 with which I have had so little intercourse for a long time back. 

 True it is that my connection with the Society, as far as member- 

 ship goes, has now lasted for the long term of seventy years, 

 longer, perhaps, than in the case of any other member ; but it 

 grieves me to think how little I have done personally for the 

 interests of the Society, how trifling the contributions I have 

 formerly made to its publications. When I open and inspect 

 the Journals which it puts forth from time to time (still so 

 liberally sent to me as they appear) and see the remarkable work 

 being done by others, often most elaborate researches into the 

 minute structure of the lower forms of animal and vegetable life, 

 my own doings in Zoology and Botany, fond as I am of the subject, 

 even now in extreme old age, seem as nothing. Yet the retrospect 

 is not without other reminiscences of a more pleasurable character. 

 It brings to my recollection departed friends whose names may 

 be found in the older lists of the Society, with some of whom I 

 joined in the pursuits that gave us so much pleasure, but who 

 have long since been called to their rest; I yet remain. If I 

 cannot claim acquaintance with many of the Fellows of the present 

 day, I shall always hold in grateful remembrance those who were 

 instrumental in getting up the congratulatory Address just re- 

 ceived, which shall always have a place on the walls of my study, 

 where there are several portraits of old Linnean Society Members, 

 including those of Mr.Macleay (father of Mr. Alexander Macleav), 

 who was, if I remember right, Secretary to the Society on the 

 evening on which I was admitted, Mr. Lambert, V.P., being in 



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