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PEOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



A-NNUAL Meeting of 12th Febeuary, 1879, at King's College, 



Strand, W.C. 



H. J. Slack, Esq., President, in the CLair. 



The Minutes of the meeting of 8th January last were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the President. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges) received since the 

 last meeting was submitted, and the thanks of the Society given to 

 the donors. 



From 



Brewer, J. A. — Flora of Surrey. 1863 Mr. Crisp. 



Chester Society of Natural Science — Proceedings. No. 2. 



1878 Mr. Thos. Shepheard. 



Drysdale, J., M.D. — The Germ Theories of Infectious 



Diseases. 1878 The Author. 



Hoggan, G. and F. E. — Etude sur les Lympliatiques de la 



Peau. (Extracted from the 'Journal de I'Anatomie 



and de la Physiologie ') The Authors. 



Koerber, Dr. G. W. — Systema Lichenum Germanise. 



1855 Mr. Crisp. 



The President read his Address (see p. 113). 



Dr. Matthews said that the President, at the commencement of his 

 address, had stated that he could hardly hope to rival that delivered 

 at their previous anniversary by Mr. Sorby, but he was sure that all 

 present would agree that they could not have had laid before them 

 more interesting and important matters than those which had been 

 dealt with that evening, and he had great pleasure in moving that 

 the cordial thanks of the meeting be given to the President for his 

 address, and that it be printed and circulated in the usual way. 



Dr. W. J. Gray having seconded the motion, 



Dr. Matthews put it to the meeting, and declared it to be carried 

 unanimously. 



The President then read a copy of a letter which he had addressed 

 to the Council as to his reasons for not offering himself for re- 

 election for another year, which was followed by remarks from Mr. 

 Crisj) and from Dr. Matthews on behalf of the Council. 



Mr. C. Brooke, F.K.S., then took the chair. 



The Report of the Council was read by the Junior Secretary, 

 Mr. Crisp (see p. 216), various passages being received with demonstra- 

 tions of approval from the meeting. 



Mr. Glaisher, F.R.S., said he rose with a great deal of pleasure to 



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