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of enabling beginners in Botany to verify the names of 
plants, grasses, and ferns. 
In these and other ways the work done in the past by 
the pioneers of the Society is bearing its fruit. 
‘Of one of these the Society has this year to deplore the 
irreparable loss, the late Dr. Henry Stolterfoth, one of the 
original members of the Society, a friend of its founder, 
for many years its able Scientific Secretary, a Kingsley 
Medallist, and Past-President, whose zeal and interest 
remained unabated to the last. 
His death inflicts upon the Society the severest 
personal loss it has as yet sustained. An enthusiastic 
and successful worker in his own department of Science, 
a wise counsellor, a staunch and sympathetic friend, he 
gave us unceasingly and ungrudgingly, and with a rare 
simplicity and sincerity, his ripe experience, his well-earned 
leisure, and best of all, his unfailing and genial courtesy. 
Your Committee have thought it fitting to record, on 
another page, in the form of an Obituary Notice, the feelings 
with which, they feel sure, the whole Society regards his 
loss (accompanying which is an illustration from a photo- 
graph kindly lent by Mr. Frank Simpson). 
LEGACIES. 
The Society has received, during the past year, two 
legacies—one from the late Dr. Stolterfoth ; the other from 
the late John Eyton Williams. 
The first consists of the valuable Microscope,Telescope, 
Microscopic Slides and Material, and Scientific Books of 
the late Dr. Stolterfoth. These are now in the Museum 
and will shortly be available for use by members. 
The other is a bequest of £250, received through Dr. 
James Taylor, one of the oldest members, and the Executor 
of the late Mr. Williams. It is left to the Society without 
conditions. The Committee have still under consideration 
the use to which this sum shall be put. The suggestion 
which has hitherto received the most favour is that the 
Interest be used for an annual lecture on some scientific 
subject of general interest to be called, In Memoriam— 
** The John Eyton Williams Lecture.” 
