xlvi Annual Report of the Council. 



The hours during which the Society's rooms are open to 

 members have been fixed as follows : Monday, Tuesday, 

 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 9-30 a.m. to 6-0 p.m. ; 

 Saturday, g-30 a.m. to i-o p.m. These hours do not of course 

 apply to the days on which the Society's rooms are officially 

 closed. 



The Council have concurred with a request by Dr. Henry 

 Wilde, F.R.S., that the Wilde Lectures should be discon- 

 tinued, and the amount provided therefor by the Trust Deed 

 will fall into the Trust Fund and become general income of the 

 Fund. 



The President has been nominated to represent the Society 

 at the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Society 

 of London. 



Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, O.M., G.C.S.L, F.R.S., on 

 December loth, 191 1, passed peacefully away in his sleep at the 

 ripe age of 94. It is impossible in the compass of a short 

 obituary notice to do justice to the scientific work accomplished 

 during so long a lifetime of exceptional activity, for up to the 

 very end of it Sir Joseph Hooker was engaged in the publication 

 of valuable contributions to Science. 



'l"he distinguished son of Sir William Hooker, Regius 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow, and subse- 

 quently Director of the Royal Gardens at Kew, Sir Joseph had 

 special facilities for the study of that science to which he 

 devoted his rare mental faculties with such enthusiasm through- 

 out his long lifetime. Like his friend Charles Darwin, he was 

 enormously influenced at the outset of his career by the 

 stimulus so beneficial to all naturalists of extensive travel, 

 being fortunate enough to accompany, as assistant surgeon and 

 botanist, Sir James Ross on his Antarctic expedition in 1839. 

 Three years before, Darwin had returned on the "Beagle," and 



