270 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society ok London. 



Anniversary Meeting, May 24, 1882.— Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., 

 F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. H. T. Staiutou, on behalf of the Audit Committee, read the state- 

 ment of receipts and payments for the year, and the Treasurer, Mr. Frank 

 Crisp, followed with a detailed explanation of the various items, showing 

 that the Society was in a sound financial condition, for besides investments 

 about £4000, the balance at bankers was £049 2s. 5d. 



Afterwards the Secretary, Mr. B. D. Jackson, read his annual report. 

 Since the last anniversary fifteen Fellows of the Society, two Foreign 

 Members, and one Associate had died, and seven Fellows had withdrawn; 

 while forty new Fellows had been elected. Between purchase, exchange, 

 and donations 383 volumes aud 348 separate parts had been added to the 

 Library, and a large number of books aud pamphlets had been bound. 



The President then delivered his Anniversary Address, commenting 

 generally on the events of the past year, with special reference to their 

 bearing upon the Society. He also made allusious to the removal of the 

 Botanical Department of the British Museum to South Kensington, and to 

 the additions of Miss North's oil paintings, Sea., to Kew Gardens. This 

 was followed by reports on the various botanical and zoological publications 

 published during the last twelvemonth. 



The obituary notices of deceased Fellows was read by the Secretary, the 

 Society having to deplore the loss of Mr, Charles Darwin, Prof. Rolleston, 

 Sir C. Wyville Thomson, and others, besides their late Treasurer, Mr. 

 Frederick Currey, who had been in office above twenty years ; as also the 

 Librarian, Mr. R. Kippist, who had been in the Society's service over fifty 



years. 



The Scrutineers having examined the ballot, then reported that Mr. 

 H. W. Bates, Prof. S. Cobbold, Prof. P. M. Duncan, Mr. E. M. Holmes, 

 and Sir J. D. Hooker had been elected into the Council, in the room of 

 Prof. Allman, Rev. J. M. Cromhie, Mr. W. S. Dallas, Mr. A. Grote, aud 

 Prof. Lankester, who retired ; and for officers, Sir J. Lubbock as President, 

 Mr. Frank Crisp as Treasurer, and Mr. B. D. Jackson and Mr. G. J. 

 Romanes as Secretaries. 



June 1, 1882. — Frank Crisp, LL.B., Treasurer, in the chair. 



Mr. H. C. Burdett was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



In illustration of his paper, "On some Cutaneous Nerve Terminations 

 in Mammals," the following preparations were shown under the microscope 

 by Dr. Hoggan:— (1) Longitudinal and transverse views of the organ of 



