286 LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
Blomefield was elected on the 19th November, 1822. I had reason 
. ope that w Sect ht haye been honoured with his presence here 
tudents two generations ago were familiar with his 
kercel of British Torte brate Animals,’ 1835. a bois B. Mackay, 
an accurate British botanist, pected in 1824 njoy 
old age at Totteridge. And . Westwood, sagas ay Ast 
1827, is still, and I trust i, an active scientific 
ng be, 
worker. I hope we may have the presence of these veterans when 
e celebrate our hundredth anniversary. At the second meeting, 
Prick $8 > second, 
ssociates and visitors introduced by Fellows, oad was kel for 
| ‘tie se a Le ; 
saat fortun 
eteog- rep salary of Five Guineas a attendance 
fF ociety at all times.” Our ce ntenay fal ‘nen on the 26th 
see rote 1887. On that day we shal 
i. aw en I omen to suggest that ‘ae an occasion should not 
, without some special celebration. The services 
we have, as a 
Pa Y, rendered to ge science, more than 
justify our right ‘0 exist, "The tory of the Linnean Society 
century is the history of biology. That ould 
inneans, but by all the world—the names, I 
» OF our founder Sir James Edward Smith, of Robert Brown, 
_ irles Darwin 
= > —— eee of the living organisms. 
— Mr. Emest Clarke, Csarther se ne President, in the chair. 
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