LINNEAN SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



ANNIVEESAET MEETING, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24ih, 1882. 



SiE John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.E.S., President, in the Chair.— Mr. H. T. 

 Stainton, on behalf of the Audit Committee, read the statement of Receipts 

 and Payments for the year ; and the Treasurer (Mr. Frank Crisp) followed with 

 a detailed explanation of the various items, showing that the Society was in a 

 very sound financial condition, for besides investments of about £4000, the 

 Balance at Bankers (30th April) was £'649 2s. bd. — Afterwards the Secretary 

 (Mr. B. D. Jackson) read his Annual Eeport. Since the last Anniversary 

 15 Fellows of the Society, 2 Foreign Members, and 1 Associate had died, and 

 7 Fellows had withdrawn ; while 40 new Fellows had been elected. Between 

 purchase, exchange, and donations 383 volumes and 348 separate parts had 

 been added to the Library. — The President then delivered his Anniversary 

 Address, commenting generally on the events of the past year, with special 

 reference to their bearing upon the Society ; he also made allusions to the 

 removal of the Botanical Department of the British Museum to South Ken- 

 sington, and to the additions of Miss North's Oil-Paintings &c. at Kew Gar- 

 dens. This was followed by Reports on the various Botanical and Zoological 

 publications published during the last twelvemonth. — The Obituary Notices of 

 deceased Fellows was read by the Secretary, the Society having to deplore the 

 loss of Charles Darwin, Prof. EoUeston, Sir C. Wyville Thomson, and others, 

 besides their late Treasurer (formerly Secretary), Mr. Frederick Currey, who 

 had been in ofiice above twenty years, as also the Librarian, Mr. E. Kippist, 

 who had been in the Society's service over fifty years. — The Scrutineers having 

 examined the ballot, then reported that Mr. H. W. Bates, Prof. T. S. Cobbold, 

 Prof. P. M. Duncan, Mr. E. M. Holmes, and Sir J. D. Hooker had been elected 

 into the Council in the room of Prof. AUman, Eev. J. M. Crombie, Mr. W. S., 

 Dallas, Mr. A. Crete, and Prof. E. E. Lankester, who retired ; and for Officers, 

 Sir J. Lubbock as President, Frank Crisp as Treasurer, and B. Daydon Jackson 

 and G. J. Eomanes as Secretaries. 



LIST OE THE OEFICEES AND COUNCIL. 



Elected 24th May, 1882. 



PRESIDENT. 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., D.C.L., LL.D., F.E.S. 



TREASURER. 

 Frank Crisp, LL.B., B.A. 



SECRETARIES. 

 B. Daydon Jackson. | George J. Eomanes, F.E.S. 



COUNCIL 

 Henry Walter Bates, F.E.S. | Edward Morell Holmes, 



Alfred W. Bennett, M.A., B.Sc. "" " 



George Busk, F.E.S., F.G.S. 

 Charles Baron Clarke, M.A., F.G.S. 

 Prof. T. Spencer Cobbold.M.D., F.E.S. 

 Frank Crisp, LL.B., B.A. 

 Prof. P. Martin Duncan,F.E.S.,F.G.S. 

 Francis Darwin, M.B. 



Sir J. D. Hooker, K.C.S.T., F.E.S. 



B. Daydon Jackson. 



Sir John Kirk, K.C.M.G. 



Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., LL.D., F.E.S. 



Eobert M'Lachlan, F.E.S. 



George J. Eomanes, F.E.S. 



LIBRARIAN. 

 James Murie, M.D., LL.D. 



ASSISTANT IN THE LIBRARY. 

 James West. 



