PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



ANATOMICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN 



AND IRELAND. 



FEBEUARY 1901. 



A MEETING of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 

 was held at Guy's Hospital on Friday, February 8th, at 4.30. The 

 President, Professor A. H. Young, occupied the chair. Twenty-one 

 members and six visitors were present. 



Before commencing the business of the meeting, the President 

 moved : — 



"That the members of the Anatomical Society of CJreat Britain and 

 Ireland desire to record their profound grief at the death of Her Most 

 Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and their deep sense of the great 

 influence the Queen exercised on all that made for good and progress. 

 In particular the Society gratefully recalls the Queen's interest in the 

 advancement of science. The Society desires further to offer to His 

 Majesty, King Edward the Seventh, a dutiful assurance of unswerving 

 and devoted loyalty to his throne and person." 



Mv R. Clement Lucas, Vice-President, in seconding the resolution, 

 said he had been chosen as a member of the staff of Guy's Hospital to 

 second this resolution, because the meeting Avas being held in Guy's 

 Hospital, a hospital which had benefited so greatly by the interest 

 His Majesty King Edward VII. had taken in it, and by the great 

 honour he had bestowed upon it by accepting the position of Presi- 

 dent. The members of the Society were loyally and devotedly 

 attached to the throne, and he had little doubt that His jNlajesty the 

 King would show the same interest in the advancement of science as 

 had been evinced by his revered and Royal mother. 



