LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. Lvii 
January 16th, 1862. 
George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
William Chapman Hewitson, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 
Nathaniel Haslope Mason, Esq., who was proposed for Hjection 
on the 5th of December, was balloted for and ejected, in confor- 
mity with the Bye-laws, chapter 7, section 2; and the President, 
in conformity with the same section of the Bye-laws, cancelled 
his name in the Register, and pronounced him to be no longer a 
Fellow of the Society. 
The President announced that, at the Meeting of Council on 
the 9th instant, an Address of Condolence to Her Majesty on the 
Death of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort was agreed 
upon, and had since been sent accordingly to Sir George Grey : 
which Address was read to the Meeting, as follows :— 
“To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty. 
“ Madam, 
“We, Your Majesty’s loyal and devoted subjects, the 
President and Council of the Linnean Society of London, in view 
of the great and calamitous bereavement which has befallen Your 
Majesty, and which has plunged the nation in one common grief, 
cannot refrain from offering to Your Majesty the heartfelt tribute 
of our sympathy and condolence. The noble qualities both of 
head and heart with which The Prince Consort was endowed, his 
extensive and varied acquirements, his sound judgment, the emi- 
nently practical character of his views, the excellence of his dis- 
position, and the warm cordiality with which his enlightened mind 
applied itself to the support of every useful object and the promo- 
tion of every good work, had obtained for him so firm a hold on the 
public mind and affection, that his loss to the nation can be regarded 
as secondary only to that which Your Majesty has sustained. 
“ By us, especially, as one of the Scientific Institutions of the 
land amongst whose members His Royal Highness was pleased to 
allow his name to be enrolled, his loss will be doubly and deeply 
felt, on account of the warm interest which, both by inclination 
and by study, he was ever ready to take in everything affecting 
the interests of science. 
“ Laying before Your Majesty this our humble tribute of con- 
dolence, we fervently pray that the Divine Disposer of Events 
