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and calling attention to the fact that cones of that species had 

 been formed in this country, and recorded in the ' Gardener's 

 Chronicle ' as far back as 1858. 



The President announced that the first part of the Library- 

 Catalogue was now printed, and would be ready for publication 

 in a few days, at the price of ten shillings to the public, and 

 seven shillings and sixpence to the Fellows. 



May 24, 1866. 



Anniversary Meeting. 



Greorge Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



This day, the Anniversary of the Birth of Linnseus, and tlie 

 day appointed by the Charter for the Election of Council and 

 Officers, the President opened the business of the Meeting with 

 the following Address : — 



GrENTLEMEN, 



In reviewing the proceedings of our Society during the past year, 

 it will be seen that we have continued to devote our attention 

 chiefly to the development of the two great means we possess of 

 promoting biological science, our publications and our library. 

 In the general plan of our octavo Journal we have thought it 

 expedient to make a slight alteration. Owing to the number of 

 Journals in this country through which ideologists can procure 

 the speedy issue of pui'ely systematic unillustrated contributions, 

 the papers they have presented to us have been chiefly of a cha- 

 racter requiring quarto illustra,tions ; and it was found that if the 

 old plan had been adhered to, of making up each number of the 

 Journal of equal moieties of the two gi'eat branches of our science, 

 the publication of important botanical contributions would be 

 frequently delayed, from the deficiency of corresponding zoolo- 

 gical matter. Prom the present volume, therefore, we have 

 adopted the separate issue of zoological and botanical parts ; 

 and the botanists in this respect are already considerably in ad- 

 vance of the zoologists. In our quarto Transactions, on the other 

 hand, the zoologists occupy the principal part. Our usual issue 



