IMIOCEEDINGS 



OF TUB 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 14, 18/9. 

 Prof. Newton, M.A., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Chairman opened the proceedings of the meeting with the 

 following remarks : — 



" Before we proceed to this evening's business, I think all present 

 will deem it only fitting that your Chairman should say a few words 

 in regard to the loss we have suffered by the death of our President 

 since we last met. I am sure there was no Fellow of the Society who 

 took a livelier or deeper interest in its welfare than did the late Lord 

 Tweeddale ; and if proof of this assertion seem to any one wanting, I 

 have but to refer to the facts that he was not merely content with 

 giving us the countenance of his high social position, not merely 

 content with presiding at our Council Meetings and discharging the 

 formal duties of the oflfice he bore amongst us, but that he actively 

 participated in our scientific work, as witness the valuable and care- 

 fully elaborated papers with which he from time to time enriched our 

 publications, the last of which you will hear read tonight. I believe I 

 am right in saying that since these Scientific Meetings were established, 

 we have never had a President who was so well, so intimately, known 

 to the majority of the Fellows who attend them, or one who was so 

 competent to appreciate the papers read or the communications made 

 at them ; and this, I need not point out to you, has been of great 

 benefit to us. Of Lord Tweeddale's life and labours I shall say 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1879, No. L 1 



