SESSION 1894-96. 



WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEE 17th, 1894. 



INAUGURAL ADDRESS 



{Given in the King's Apartments, Royal Pavilion), 

 De. ARTHUR NEWSHOLME, M.R.C.P. 



SOME ASPECTS OF HEREDITY. 



Dr. Newsholme commenced by saying that it was his first 

 duty to express his thanks for the honour which the members of 

 the Society had conferred on him by electing him as their 

 President for a second year. A presidential address 

 inaugurating a new Session should deal with the affairs 

 of the Society during the year which had passed. It was not, 

 however, necessary for him to say much on this head, because the 

 Report of the Council dealt authoritatively with the work which 

 had been done. 



The large share which the Evolution Hypothesis had had in 

 the papers and discussions of the year was shown by the fact that 

 out of nine meetings of the Society, no less than seven were 

 occupied by different aspects of this great question. 



We were indebted to Miss Crane for two papers dealing 

 with this question. One on " The Evolution of Brachiopoda," a 

 subject in which she stands among the first of living authorities ; 

 and the other on " The Origin of Birds." Dr. Wynne also dealt 

 with the same important subject in its relation to natural selection, 

 and Mr. Arthur Griffith in two papers referred to many of the 

 ornithological problems connected with the same great problem. 



The Soiree held in March last was admitted by everyone 

 present at it to have been one of the most successful, as far as 

 the Programme was concerned, that the Society has even given. 



