evi PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
The Secretary also announced that twenty-five Fellows, three 
Foreign Members, and one Associate had been elected since the 
last Anniversary. 
At the Election which subsequently took place, George Bentham, 
Esq., was re-elected President; William Wilson Saunders, Esq., 
Treasurer ; and George Busk, Esq. and Frederick Currey, Esq., 
Secretaries. The following five Fellows were elected into the 
Council, in the room of others going out: viz., Beriah Bottfield, 
Esq., M. P.; Henry Christy, Esq.; J. E. Gray, Ph.D.; John 
Lubbock, Esq. ; and R. C. A. Prior, M.D. 
Mr. W. F. Saunders, on the part of the Auditors of the Trea- 
surer’s Accounts, read the Balance Sheet, by which it appeared 
that the total Receipts during the past year, including a Balance 
of £445 2s. 5d. carried from the preceding year, amounted to 
£1817 15s. 11d., and that the total Expenditure during the 
same period (including the purchase of £200 Consols) amounted 
to £1144 2s. 9d., leaving a Balance in the hands of the Bankers 
of £673 13s. 2d. 
June 5th, 1862. 
George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Frederic Francis Hallett, Esq., and William Henry Kirton, 
Esq., were elected Fellows. 
The President nominated Thomas Bell, Esq., J. J. Bennett, 
Esq., J. D. Hooker, M.D., and W. W. Saunders, Esq., Vice- 
Presidents for the ensuing year. 
The following Papers were read, viz. :— 
1. “ Observations on the Gonidia and Confervoid Filaments of 
Mosses, and on the relation of their Gonidia to those of Lichens 
and of certain Freshwater Alge;” by J. B. Hicks, M.D., F.R.S. 
& LS. (See ‘Transactions,’ vol. xxiii. Part 3.) 
2. Letter from Mr. Gustav Mann to Sir W. J. Hooker, dated 
February 27th, 1862, and giving an account of his ascent of the 
Cameroon Mountains. Communicated by Sir William Hooker, 
K.H., F.RS. & LS. 
3. “On the Vegetation of the Cameroons ;” by J. D. Hooker, 
M.D., F.R.S. & LS. 
