xviii Proceedings. [Jaiiuary 20th, igoj. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 20th, 1903. 



Charles Bailev, M.Sc, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



The President read a letter which had been received from 

 Professor F. W. Clarke, and announced tliat the Council had 

 arranged for the Wilde Lecture to be delivered on Tuesday, 

 May 19th, 1903. 



The President also referred to the great loss the Society had 

 sustained through the death of Dr Edward Schunck, F.R.S., 

 who, at the time of his death, was the oldest member of the 

 Society, having been elected in 1842. For the long period of 

 61 years, therefore. Dr. Schunck had been a member of this 

 Society, administering its affairs when in office with efficiency 

 and with the greatest acceptance to the members, contributing 

 to it the results of many of his famous researches, and taking, up 

 to the last, the keenest interest in all its affairs. When he was 

 occupying the Presidential chair eleven years ago, he was warmly 

 congratulated by his fellow-members upon the occasion of the 

 completion of the jubilee of his connection with the Society, and 

 many well remember the feeling acknowledgments which he 

 then made, when he said that his association with the Society 

 had been one of the chief pleasures of his life. The most 

 affectionate regard for his work and memory will be retained by 

 those who had the honour of knowing Dr. Schunck, and tliey 

 will remember him as a wise, kind, and generous friend, whose 

 extreme urbanity, kindness of spirit, and natural modesty, were 

 unaffected by his brilliant achievements in original research. 



The President added that he and Mr. Francis Jones 

 (Hon. Secretary) represented the Society at the funeral of 

 Dr. Schunck on Saturday, the 17th inst., and that he had been 

 requested by the Council to send a letter of condolence to 

 Mrs. Schunck. 



