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Further, your thanks are specially due to the Council of the Linnean 

 Society, through whose kindness the Society has been permitted, as 

 in previous years, to hold its meetings in Burlington House." 



On the motion of Mr. S. I. Da Costa, seconded by Mr. F. G. 

 Bridgman, the above was adopted as the Annual Eeport of the 

 Society. 



The following were elected as Officers and Council for the year 1 904 : 



President.— E. R. Sykes, B.A., F.L.S. 



Vice-Presidents.—^. T. Blanford, C.I.E., LL.D., F.R.S. ; Professor 

 W. A. Herdman, F.R.S. ; B. B. Woodward, F.L.S. ; 

 H. Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S. 

 Treasurer. — J. H. Ponsonby, F.Z.S. 

 Secretary. — R. H. Burne, B.A., F.Z.S. 

 Editor.— 'E. A. Smith, I.S.O. 



Other Members of the Council. — Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin- Austen, 



F.R.S. ; Professor G. B. Howes, LL.D., F.R.S. ; J. Cosmo 



Melvill, M.A., F.L.S.; R. Bullen Newton, F.G.S.; Rev. 



Canon Merle Norman, D.C.L., F.R.S. ; W. G. Ridewood, 



D.Sc, F.L.S. 



On the motion of Dr. W. T. Blanford, seconded by Mr. Bulleu 



Newton, a vote of thanks was passed to the Retiring Officers and 



Members of Council, and to the Auditors and Scrutineers, the retiring 



President and Editor being specially thanked for their valuable 



services. 



OBITUARY NOTICE. 



It is with much regret that we have to record the death, on 

 August 17th last year, of Dr. Otto Feanz von Moellendoeff, who had 

 been a member of this Society since the year 1894. He was bom at 

 Hoyerswerda, in Eastern Prussia, in the year 1848. 



Moellendorff was a great conchologist, although his studies were 

 practically Limited to land and fresh-water moUusca, and during his 

 residence abroad, in the Consular service, he had great opportunities 

 of amassing a magnificent collection, partly through his own collecting, 

 and also by exchanges with numerous other collectors. He first of 

 all investigated the fauna of Bosnia, and published in 1873 the 

 " Beitrage zur Fauna Bosniens," forty-three of the seventy-two pages 

 of which the work consists being devoted to an account of the 

 Mollusca. 



In 1873 he obtained an appointment in China, where he remained 

 for about seven years, and was subsequently transferred to a position 

 in the Philippine Islands, which he retained for a long period. It 

 was during his residence in this part of the world that many of his 

 important papers were written. 



In 1896, through ill-health, he was compelled to return to Europe, 

 and first of all resided at Kovno, in Western Russia, and subsequently, 

 in 1901, he removed to Frankfort. He was not destined long to 



