1894.] of the Rev. Leonard Blomefield. 239 



He was an original member of the Zoological, of the Entomo- 

 logical, and of the Ray Societies, and was elected a member of 

 the Linnrean Society in 1822 and of the Geological Society in 1835. 



He enriched many a local institution. To the Ipswich Museum 

 he gave his valuable collections of birds' eggs and of mammalian 

 skulls. His Herbarium in 40 large folio volumes, besides some 

 smaller ones, as well as his scientific library of more than 2000 

 volumes, he presented to the Royal Literary and Scientific Insti- 

 tution at Bath, in or near which he resided during the last 43 

 years of his life, and where he also left his mark in the Field Club 

 which he founded, the papers he read, and the stimulus which he 

 personally gave to scientific investigations. 



He presented to the museum of our Society the collection of 

 fish obtained by him on the south coast of England and of Diptera 

 mostly caught in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, and he must 

 always be regarded as one of our benefactors, not only for his gifts 

 to the museum, out of which our existing admirable Natural 

 History collections have been developed, but also for the part 

 which he took in promoting the success of the Society in its early 

 days." 



The President elect. Prof. Thomson, on taking the Chair, 

 referred to the loss sustained by science in the death of Professor 

 von Helmholtz. 



The names of the Benefactors of the Society were recited, viz. 

 Dean Peacock, Rev. F. Martin, Prof. Sedgwick, Prof. Babington, 

 Prof. Adams. 



The following proposals received the assent of the Society : 



(i) That to the Bye-Laws Chap. xvi. there be added the 

 following paragraph : — 



"Associates, being either Teachers recognized by the Uni- 

 versity or engaged in investigations of a scientific character, 

 may upon application made to the Council through one of the 

 Secretaries receive permission to borrow books from the Society's 

 Library on the same conditions as Fellows of the Society. 

 Associates availing themselves of such permission shall pay a 

 subscription of half a guinea per annum." 



(ii) That in the Rules for the Cambridge Philosophical Library 

 there be inserted in Rule 4 after the words "Fellows of the Philo- 

 sophical Society " the following : — 



" and Associates who have received special permission from 

 the Council of the Society." 



