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General Meeting, February 7th, 1888. 



Professor OsBORNE REYNOLDS, LL.D., M.A., F.R.S., 



Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Alderman W. H. Bailey, of Salford, and Mr. 

 William Grimshaw, of Manchester, were elected ordinary 

 members. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 7th, 1888. 



Professor OSBORNE REYNOLDS, LL.D., M.A., F.R.S., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. John Angell, F.C.S., F.LC, and Mr. ALEX 

 HODGKINSON, M.B., B.Sc., were appointed Auditors of the 

 Treasurer's Accounts. 



Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S., referred to the recent 

 deaths of Dr. A. de Bary and Dr. Asa Gray, two of the 

 honorary members of the Society ; the one a leading repre- 

 sentative of botanical physiology in the eastern hemisphere, 

 and the other the most distinguished botanical systematist 

 of the western hemisphere. Both had been our guests in 

 September last, and by their genial manners and their 

 readiness to impart their great stores of knowledge, had 

 endeared themselves to a widening circle of old and of 

 new friends. Both had taken a prominent part in the 

 proceedings of the Biological Section of the British 

 Association's meeting in Manchester. Both of them left 

 us to die in the homes of their fathers ; but 



' To live in hearts we leave behind, 

 Is not to die.' 



The younger of the two predeceased the elder, and 

 many of us who welcomed him to Manchester parted from 

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