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The following were elected as Officers and Council for the year 1900: 

 President— \N. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.E.S., etc. 

 Vice-Presidents. — Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., etc. ; 

 Prof. Gr. B Howes, LL.D., F.R.S., etc.; Rev. Canon Merle 

 .Norman, D.C.L., F.R.S., etc. ; E. A. Smith, F.Z.S., etc. 

 Treasurer — J. H. Ponsonhy, F.Z.S., etc. 

 Secretary. — M. F. Woodward. 

 Editor.— R. B. Woodward, F.L.S., etc. 



Six other Members of the Council. — Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, 



F.L.S., etc ; R. H. Burnc, B.A., F.Z.S., etc. ; G. F. Harris, 



F.G.S., etc. ; J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., etc. ; E. R. 



Sykes, B.A., F.L.S., etc. ; H. Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., etc. 



Votes of thanks were passed to the Retiring Officers, the Auditors, 



and the Scrutineers, a special vote of thanks being given to 



Mr. G. F. Harris, the retiring Treasurer. 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 

 Sir Rawson William Rawson, K.C.M.G., C.B., etc., who became 



m a member of the Society in 1894, took a keen interest in Conchology, 

 and had amassed a large collection of shells. 



He was born in 1811, educated at Eton, and in 1830 became 

 Secretary to the then Vice-President of the Board of Trade; in 1834 

 he was appointed Secretary to the President, and in 1841 was Private 

 Secretary to Mr. Gladstone in the same office. In 1842 he was 



- appointed Chief Secretary for Canada, subsequently going to 

 Mauritius, where for several years he held the post of Treasurer. He 



> was appointed Colonial Secretary at the Cape of Good Hope in 1S5 1, 

 and was elected to the Cape Parliament. In 1864 lie was appointed 

 (ioverhor of the Bahamas, and in 1869 of the Windward Islands, 

 retiring in 1875, when he received the honour of knighthood. 



Sir Rawson Rawson was also a good botanist, and joint author with 

 Dr. K. W. L. Pappe of "Synopsis Filicum Africa 1 Australis." He 

 was also devoted to geographical research, and at one time served on 

 the Council of the Royal Geographical Society. He further did much 

 for the Statistical Society; was its President in 1884-5, and first 

 President of the International Statistical Institute. He died in 

 London, 20th November, 1899. 1 



Sylvanus Charles Tiiokp Hanley, although never a member of 



the Malacological Society, was far too noted a Malacologist, and his 



i death too great a loss to our science, to be passed over without mention. 



He is probably best known by his work, written in conjunction with 



Prof. E. Forbes,' "A History of British Mollusca," which is still the 



I best on the whole subject; though his "Ipsa LinnaT Conchylia " is 



an equally valuable publication, and indispensable to the systematist. 2 



1 See notice by J. Cosmo Melvill, F.L.S., etc.. Journ. Conch., vol. ix, pp. 319-20, 



to which we are indebted tor the above facts. 



2 For ;t list of his writings, sec notice by E. A. Smith, F.Z.S., etc., in Journ. Couch., 



vol. ix, pp. '26U-70, to which we arc iml ibted for the facts here given. 



