152 Death of Dr. F. Sfoliczka. [July, 



The Council reported that the following stores and equipment for Deep- 

 sea Dredging operations had been received from England. 



Iron Dredgers, 3 



Indian rubber accumulators, 30 



Sieves, copper wire, set of 4, set 1 



^ 1 



Globular Basket, copper, 1 



Scoop, 1 



Trays, copper guage, 2 



Coil, copper wire, 1 



Baskets of stone Jars, (6) 12 



(4) 6 



Microscope, 1 



Deep sea Thermometers, 10 



Chemical apparatus. Hydrometer. 



The Council also announced that arrangements had been made for 

 the Library being open on Friday mornings from 7 o'clock A. M., to suit the 

 convenience of those members whose official duties prevented them from 

 visiting the Library during the day-time. 



The President then announced to the meeting the sad intelligence of 

 the death of Dr, F. Stohczka, late Natural History Secretary of the Society, 

 on the return journey from Yarkand. He said — 



Gentlemeis", — With a sorrow-laden heart I rise to announce to you 

 that which the gloom that sits upon us all, tells me is already too well known. 

 Would that it had not been my sad task to tell you that Dr. Stoliczka, 

 our late Secretary, has been taken from among us — let us trust to happier 

 and brighter worlds, surely the reward of such nobility of mind, such single- 

 ness of heart, such honesty of purpose, such unselfish devotion of a life to 

 his duty in this wide world, to the advancement of his fellow man. 



The loss cannot be his — but to us — to this Society he loved so well ; 

 to this Government he served so faithfully ; to those of all nations and 

 languages who laboured in the same path, and among whom he was rising as 

 one to guide and to lead, his loss is irreparable. 



Of the manner of his death we know nothing ; all we learn is, that he 

 died on the other side of Leh on his return with the Expedition from 

 Yarkand which he had joined for the purpose of investigating the geolo- 

 gical problem of High Central Asia, a work that had for years been the 

 dream of his life. 



Gentlemen, when I look round this table to his accustomed seat, 

 when I call to recollection Dr. Stoliczka, a man among whose friends I 

 felt it an honour to be numbered, when I call to mind all that he did for 



