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auch old members of the governing body of the Society without 
expressing their sense of the valuable services they have ren- 
dered, and the active interest they have for so many years taken 
in its welfare and its proceedings. 
By Rule 20, the Council has to nominate not more than nine 
nor less than three of the past Presidents of the Society to be 
Vice-Presidents during the coming year. The names of these 
gentlemen will in due course be submitted to you. Rules 6 and 
10 permit ladies to become members without entrance fee. The 
number is small at present of those who have availed themselves 
of this privilege, but it is to be hoped that members will make 
these new provisions more widely known, and that in consequence 
a larger number of ladies will appear in the list of members next 
year, 
Since the last Report was issued, the Society has had to 
regret the loss by death of two of its past Presidents, viz., Mr. 
W. M. Hollis, J.P., and the Hon. Howe Browne. The former 
was for 33 years a member of the Society, and, as long as he was 
capable of attending its meeetings, one of our most active and 
efficient members. 
During the past year the papers read before the Society» 
and the Lectures given at its meetings, have been as follows :— 
1887 : October 12th, Inaugural Address by the President, Mr. 
Seymour Burrows, B.A., M.R.C.S, ; October 27th, Lecture at 
Hove by Mr. Pankhurst on “ Glaciers ” ; November 16th “ Eyes 
in the Lower Animals,” Mr. W. H. Rean ; November 30th, 
Microscopical Meeting, subject “ Eyes ” ; December 14th, 
4 Pessimism,” Mr. J. E. Haselwood. 1888: January 13th, 
Lecture at Central Schools, Church Street, by Mr. H. Edmonds, 
B.Sc., on “The Minute Anatomy of Animal Tissues ” ; February 
15th, “ Teeth—their Structure in Men and Animals,” Mr. Walter 
Harrison, D.M.D. ; March 14th, “ Observations in Moth Breed- 
ing for Pedigree purposes,” Mr. F. Merrifield ; April 11th, 
Microscopical Meeting ; May 9th, “The Origin and Develop- 
ment of Written Language,” Mr. Pankhurst. 
