iv FrOCEEDINGS. [October ist, igi2. 



"potuimus, inde id nobis contigerit quod Vestro exemplo 

 " instincti doctos uiros et naturae inuestigatores singulos ac 

 "solos laborare non patimur, sed in sociorum conuiuia, in 

 " rationis commercia attrahere conamur. Sit de nobis 

 " quoque dictum, ut a Vergilio olim cum Roma Mantuam 

 "comparante, 



" Sic canibus catuli similes, sic matribus haedi, 

 " dummodo quis hoc pro certo habeat nos haedos, quan- 

 " quam iam et ipsi per centum et triginta annorum cursum 

 " saltauimus, uictorias ac triumphos Vestros, uelut Parentis, 

 "summo semper gaudio reuereri, feriasque Vestras hoc 

 " tempore laetissime celebrare. Et in tanto hoc populo, 

 " cuius necessitates in dies acrius Scientiae exauctae opem 

 "ante omnia implorant, din Vobis excitare ac ducere liceat 

 " magnum istum exercitum quarentium ueritatem. 



" Horum ergo uotorum nuntium, Praesidem nostrum 

 " dilectum, artis botanicae acerrimuin Professorem, Frederi- 

 "cum Krnestum Weiss, a Vobis benigne uocati delegauimus 

 "qui Vobis ipse laetantibus laetitiaui nostram repraesentet. 



" F. E. Weiss, Fraeses. 



"R. L. Taylor, | 

 "George HicklinoJ S'^'^''^^'^"- 



•■ Datum Mancunio 



"ex aedil)U> Daltonianis 



'• Kal. lul. MDCCCCXir." 



Mr. William Burton, M.A., F.C.S., gave a brief account 

 of the life and work of Mr. Alfred Brothers. Mr. Brothers was 

 elected a member of the Society in i860 ; thus, at the time of 

 his death, on August 25th, he had for more than fifty years 

 been a member of the Society. 



The President exhibited and made some remarks on a 

 specimen of the so called Crown or Mummy Pea. 



Professor C Elliot Smith, M.A., M.D., F. R.S., read a 

 paper entitled, "Ancient Stone Monuments." 



'I'he [japer will l)e printed in the Memoirs. 



