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Much to our regret the amount offered in grant to the 

 Travel Fund was not applied for, but Mr. Merritield, the 

 generous donor, has intimated that he is willing to renew his 

 donation, and it is to be ho})ed, therefore, that Fellows anxious 

 to pursue their studies abroad will avail themselves of the 

 opportunity. 



The Society was invited to send a delegate to the Darwin- 

 Wallace Celebration of the Linnaean Society, and was repre- 

 sented by our President, Mr. C. O. Waterhouse ; also to the 

 Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Oxford Uni- 

 versity Museum, when one of the Secretaries, Commander 

 J. J. Walker, E..N., attended on our behalf. The Society has 

 also been asked to send a representative to the Charles 

 Darwin Commemoration at Cambridge this year, and we have 

 requested our President-elect, Dr. F. A. Dixey, to attend in 

 our behalf. 



For the first time in our history, we are able to report a 

 Conversazione organised by the Society, and held in the rooms 

 of the Civil Service Commission at Burlington House, kindly 

 placed at our disposal by the First Commissioner of Works. 

 About three hundred Fellows and their guests attended, the 

 expenses being defrayed by the contributions of Fellows who 

 subscribed their names to the Guarantee Fund, and by the sale 

 of tickets. Owing, however, to the death of several sub- 

 scribers a small sum remains chargeable to the general funds 

 of the Society. Lord Avebury also most kindly made a 

 donation. It is to be hoped that similar meetings may be 

 held in the future ; if not every year, at all events at short 

 intervals. 



The Treasurer reports that the subscriptions for the year, as 

 shown by the Balance Sheet of the Society, are about .£30 in 

 excess of those for 1907. The admission fees, amounting to 

 £46 4s., again show an advance on previous years. There is 

 also a satisfactory increase in the sale returns for the Society's 

 publications, the cash balance in favour of the Society being 

 £10 19s. Qd. in all. 



The Librarian reports that the Library has been particularly 

 well patronised for the purposes of reference and study, and 

 that 278 volumes have been issued for home reading. 



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