LINNEAN SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



ANNIVEKSABY MEETING, TUESDAY, MAY 24th, 1881. 



Prof. Allman, LL.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. — There was a numerous 

 attendance of the Fellows. — The Treasurer presented his Annual Accounts 

 see page 3 of wrapper. — Afterwards the Secretary (Mr. B. Daydon Jackson) 

 read his Report. Since the last Anniversary 11 Fellows of the Society 

 had died and 4 had withdrawn. Against this 37 new Fellows had been 

 elected, besides 1 Foreign Member and 1 Associate. During the past year 

 there had been received as Donations to the Library 106 volumes and 125 

 pamphlets and separate memoirs. From Scientific Societies in exchange 

 there had been received 96 volumes and 248 detached parts of publications, 

 besides 23 vols, of Donations from Editors of independent periodicals. Some 

 90 vols, had been purchased, viz. 80 separate and 63 serials equal to 10 vols. 

 The total additions to the Library being 315 vols, and 373 separate parts. 

 Framed water-colour sketches of Dr. Rob. Brown's birthplace, his London resi- 

 dence, and of Sir Joseph Banks's Library had been presented by Mr. R. Kippist. 

 The Society's Collections and Herbaria had been duly examined and reported 

 on to the Council as in good condition. After 50 years' service Mr. Kippist 

 had resigned his position as Librarian to the Society, and the Council, in ac- 

 knowledgment thereof, had granted him a retiring pension. — Thereafter pre- 

 sentation of portraits of the late Mr. John Miers and of Prof. St. George Mivart 

 were made. — Prof. Allman then delivered his Anniversary Address, " Recent 

 Advances in our Knowledge of the Development of the Ctenophora." — The 

 Secretary afterwards read Obituary Notices of the several Fellows, making 

 special mention of Mr. E. R. Alston (late Zool. Secretary), Mr. John Gould 

 (Ornithologist), Mr. Gerrard KrefTt (of Sydney), Dr. Lauder Lindsay, and R. 

 A. Pryor, of Herts. — The Scrutineers having examined the ballot, then re- 

 ported that Mr. A. W. Bennett, Mr. F. Darwin, Prof. E. R. Lankester, Sir J. 

 Lubbock, and Mr. G. J. Romanes had been elected into the Council in the room 

 of E. R. Alston (deceased), Dr. T. Boycott, Prof. M. Foster, Dr. J. G. Jeffreys, 

 and Prof. Mivart, who retired ; and for Officers, Sir J. Lubbock as President, 

 F. Currey as Treasurer, B. D. Jackson and G. J. Romanes as Secretaries. 



LIST OF THE OFFICEES AND COUNCIL. 



PRESIDENT. 

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

 VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

 Prof. G. J. Allman, LL.D., F.R.S. Charles Baron Clarke, M.A., F.G.S. 



George Busk, F.R.S., F.G.S. Frank Crisp, B.A., LL.B. 



SECRETARIES. 

 B. Daydon Jackson. George J. Romanes, F.R.S. 



TREASURER. 

 Frederick Currey, M.A., F.R.S. (since deceased). 



COUNCIL. 



Prof. G. J. Allman, LL.D., F.R.S. 

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

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

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

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

 Rev. James M. Crombie, M.A., F.G.S. 

 Frederick Currey, M.A., F.R.S. 

 "William Sweetland Dallas. 



Francis Darwin, M.B. 



Arthur Grote, F.G.S., R.A.S. 



B. Daydon Jackson. 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S. 



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



Robert MacLachlan, F.R.S. 



George J. Romanes, F.R.S. 



LIBRARIAN. 

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



ASSISTANT IN THE LIBRARY 

 James West. 



