330 PROCEEDINGS OF TIIE SOCIETY. 



Mr. Crisp said ho had received a letter from Dr. Hudson, the new 

 President, expressing his regret at not being able to bo present at the 

 animal meeting, having mot with an injury to his knee ; ho was, how- 

 ever, progressing favourably, and hoped to be present at their next 

 meeting. 



New Fellows. — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows: — 

 Messrs. Frank Ballard, M.A., Edward Halkyard, John Thompson, and 

 Arthur J. Wolff, M.D. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1887. 



Fellows. — 43 Ordinary Fellows have been elected during the past 

 year, whilst 29 have died, resigned, or been removed, leaving the 

 increase during the year 14 Ordinary Fellows. One Honorary Fellow 

 has been elected, Mr. P. H. Gosse, F.R.S. The list now stands as 

 follows: — Ordinary Fellows 631, Honorary Fellows 50, Ex-officio 

 Fellows 82, or in all— 763. 



The Society have to regret the deaths of several prominent Fellows 

 since the commencement of the present year — three Honorary Fellows, 

 Mr. G. R. Waterhouse, Prof. A. de Bary, and Dr. Asa Gray; and an 

 Ordinary Fellow, Dr. John Millar. Dr. A. Farre, a Past President, 

 died during the past year. 



Mr. G. R. Waterhouse was for many years keeper of the Geological 

 Department of the British Museum, and was the author of a Natural 

 History of Marsupials and Rodents, a Catalogue of British Coleoptera, 

 and a description of the Mammals collected during the voyage of the 

 ' Beagle,' he being at the time Curator of the Zoological Society. 



Dr. Anton de Bary, Professor of Botany at Strassburg, was well 

 known as a distinguished Mycologist and as one of the most philosophical 

 Botanists of the age. He may be said to have laid the foundation of our 

 knowledge of Vegetable Pathology. 



Dr. Asa Gray, who was elected an Honorary Fellow as long ago as 

 1851, was the most eminent of American botanists, and his influence 

 with the late Mr. Darwin has recently been brought into prominent 

 notice. 



Dr. Arthur Farre, F.R.S., was the sixth President of the Society, 

 having been elected in 1850, at which time he took a very active part in 

 the affairs of the Society. He was afterwards appointed a Physician 

 Extraordinary to the Queen and Physician Accoucheur to the Princess 

 of Wales. 



The Council cannot refer to the death of Dr. John Millar without 

 expressing the deep sorrow with which they received the intelligence. 

 Dr. Millar has been a Fellow of the Society for thirty-one years, and for 

 twenty-eight years a member of the Council. At their last meeting the 

 Council recorded their sense of the loss which they and the Society have 

 sustained by his death, and a resolution on the subject will be submitted 

 to the Annual Meeting. 



Finances. — The net increase of revenue from the election of new 

 Fellows during the past year has amounted to 34Z. 2s. 6d. as against 



