FIRST GENERAL MEETING. 



TUESDAY, 23 AUGUST, AT THE GUILDHALL AT 10.30 a.m. 



Chairman : Sir John Lubbock, Bart, M.P., LL.D., 

 D.C.L., F.R.S. 



The President delivered the following Address : 



My first duty to-day is to welcome our foreign friends who 

 have done us the honor of attending the Congress. I may do so 

 I know on behalf of all English Zoologists. They will I trust 

 find much to reward them for their journey. It will have been 

 to them, as it is to us, and to no one more than myself, a matter 

 of profound regret that Sir W. Flower, who had been nominated 

 as our President, found himself unable to accept the post. Our 

 regret is the keener on account of the cause, but I am sure we all 

 hope that rest and change of air will secure him a renewal of 

 health. Sir W. Flower has sent me the following : 



Ireland, 



August 20th, 189S. 



My DEAR Lubbock, 



I shall be much obliged to you if you will take some 

 suitable opportunity of telling the assembled Congress how deeply 

 I regret that I am prevented by the state of my health from taking 

 part in the meeting, and how cordially I wish that all those who 

 attend from abroad may derive much pleasure and advantage from 

 their visit to England, and that this meeting may be the means not 

 only of promoting the advancement of zoological knowledge, but 

 also of increasing the cordial cooperation and good fellowship 

 already happily existing among zoologists of all nationalities. 



Under your presidency, I feel sure that the meeting must be a 

 success. 



Believe me, 



Yours very truly, 



W. H. Flower. 



