LINNEAN SOCIETY OE LONDON. 

 A^NIVEESART MEETING, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24th, 1882. 



Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.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 (30tli April) was =£649 2s. bd. See page 3 of wrapper. — 

 Afterwards the Secretary (Mr. B. D. Jackson) read his Annual Report. 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 had died, and 7 Fellows had withdrawn ; while 40 new Fellows had been elected.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 Librarv. — 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 Mr. Charles Darwin, Prof. Rolleston, Sir C. Wy ville Thomson, and others, 

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

 had been in office above twenty years, as also the Librarian, Mr. R. 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. B. M. Holmes, and Sir J. D. Hooker had byen elected 

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

 Dallas, Mr. A. G-rote, and Prof. E. R. Lankester, who retired ; nnd. fi)r Officers, 

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

 Jackson and Mr. G. J. Romanes as Secretaries. 



LIST OF THE OEFICEES AND COXJNCIL. 



Elected 24th May, 1882. 



PRESIDENT. 

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



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

 George Busk, F.R.S., F.G.S. I Sir J. D. Hooker, KC.S.L, F.R.S. 



Frank Crisp, LL.B., B.A., F.G.S. | Sir John Kirk, K.C.M.G. 



TREASURER. 

 Frank Crisp, LL.B., B.A., F.G.S. 



SECRETARIES. 

 B. Daydon Jackson. | George J. Romanes, LL.D., F.R.S. 



COUNCIL. 



Henry Walter Bates, F.R.S. 

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

 George Busk, F.R.S., F.G.S. 

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

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

 Frank Crisp, LL.B., B.A., F.G.S. 

 Francis Darwin, M.B., F.R.S. 

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



Edward Morell Holmes. 



Sir J. D. Hooker, K.C.S.L, F.R.S. 



B. Daydon Jackson. 



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



Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., LL.D., F.R.I 



Robert M<^Lachlan, F.R.S. 



George J. Romanes, LL.D., F.R.S. 



LIBRARIAN. 

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

 ASSISTANT IN THE LIBRARY. 



James West. 



