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Our honorary member, Mr. C. Spence Bate, F.R.S., of 

 Plymouth., a naturalist of considerable reputation, a writer on 

 the prehistoric antiquities of Cornwall and Devon, and a con- 

 tributor to our Journal, has also passed away. As a naturalist, 

 his favourite study was the Crustacea ; and in the development 

 and morphology of this group he did most of the work by which 

 his name will long be remembered by students of natural science. 

 His memoirs in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal 

 Society are well remembered, as exhibiting in a marked manner 

 the interest which he took in elucidating the remarkable trans- 

 formations undergone by the young of Crustacea, showing his 

 thorough familiarity with the subject. In his later years, Mr. 

 Bate prepared the voluminous report on the Crustacea Macrura, 

 dredged during the expedition of H.M.S. Challenger, a most 

 valuable work occupying two large volumes of the Official 

 Report, and illustrated by 150 lithographic plates, most of which 

 were drawn by his own hand. Mr. Bate was a native of Truro, 

 where he received his education at the Grammar School, 1829-37. 



The progress of the Institution on which Mr. John 

 Tremayne, our late President, congratulated the members in his 

 address at the last Spring Meeting, has not only been fully 

 maintained, but has surpassed that of any recent year. This 

 progress has been marked by a large increase of members, and 

 also by valuable additions to the Museum and Library. The 

 gifts to the Museum include further handsome donations from 

 Mrs. Sharp, of London; Mr. Walter PL Harris, Sheriff of 

 London ; Mr. R. B. Rogers, of Mawnan ; besides many presents 

 from other members and friends, the details of which will 

 appear in our Journal. The Library has been enriched by dona- 

 tions of numerous volumes of books by Mr. John D. Enys, an 

 old and esteemed member, long resident in New Zealand ; by 

 Mrs. Sharp, of London ; and by other friends of the Institution 



The interest in the museum is still sustained, and the great 

 increase in the number of visitors is a subject of much con- 

 gratulation. A very pleasing feature connected with it is the 

 appreciative interest shown by them in the various subjects 

 which the Museum illustrates. The first step towards the proper 

 arrangement of the collections in the Museum has been taken in 



