226 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Friday, 8th February, 1901. 



"W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting having been 

 read, the President addressed those present as follows : — 



" Before proceeding to the business of the annual meeting, 

 I feel sure that it will be the wish of all present and of all 

 members of our Society that I should express our profound 

 sorrow at the loss which the Empire has sustained in the death 

 of our beloved Sovereign, Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen 

 Victoria. During her long and glorious reign, seven-eighths of 

 which had passed before the Malacological Society came into 

 existence, every science has nourished in our land, and even 

 the branch of Natural History to which we are devoted has 

 undergone a complete and beneficial transformation through the 

 progress of studies in anatomy, physiology, and evolution. The 

 memory of the great Queen whom we have lost, of all her kindly 

 and gracious acts, of her love for her people, and of the profound 

 attention and reverence with which they regarded her, will live 

 in the hearts of many a generation of our countrymen, and it 

 may be hoped will inspire them with that love of honesty and 

 truth by which she was pre-eminently distinguished, and which 

 is the foundation of all scientific enquiry. Few as are the 

 members of our Society, and small as may be the share we take 

 amongst the vast scientific enterprise of the civilized world, we 

 cannot allow the Queen's decease to pass unnoticed, nor can we 

 omit to join in the universal expression of grief at the nation's 

 loss, or in the equally universal feeling of sympathy with her 

 late Majesty's son and successor, King Edward VII, who we 

 hope will long occupy the throne of his ancestors in peace and 

 prosperity." 



Mr. H. Fulton and Mr. W. M. Webb were appointed scrutineers. 



The following report was read : — 



"Your Council, in presenting their eighth Annual Report, have 

 once more to record a year of steady progress. 



During the past year four members have resigned ; while the Society 

 has further to deplore the loss of two of its members by death. 1 Six 



1 Dr. C. C. Claremont and Mr. G. Sherrifl Tye, both original members. 



