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May 24th, Anniversary Meeting. — Prof. Stewart, President, in the 

 chair. 



Messrs. G. B. Rothera and W. Frome Wilkinson were admitted Fellows 

 of the Society. 



The Treasurer presented his Annual Report, duly audited, and the 

 Secretary having announced the elections and deaths during the past twelve 

 months, the usual ballot took place for new members of Council, when the 

 following were elected :— Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., C. B. Clarke, M.A., 

 F.R.S., Prof. J. Reynolds Green, Arthur Lister, and Albert D. Michael. 



On a ballot taking place for the election of President and Officers, 

 Mr. Charles Baron Clarke, M.A., F.R.S., was nominated President, and 

 the Treasurer and Secretaries were re-elected. 



The Librarian's Report having been read, and certain formal business 

 disposed of, the retiring President delivered his Annual Address, taking for 

 his subject "the Locomotion of Animals, with special reference to the 

 Crustacea." On the motion of Dr. D. H. Scott, seconded by Mr. Howard 

 Saunders, a unanimous vote of thanks was accorded to the President for his 

 Address, with a request that he would allow it to be printed. 



The Society's Gold Medal was then formally awarded to Prof. Ernst 

 Haeckel, of Jena, for his researches in Invertebrate Zoology, especially in 

 relation to the Medusce and Badiolaria. It was received on his behalf by 

 Mr. W. Percy Sladen, who read a letter of acknowledgment and thanks, 

 prefaced by an expression of the writer's regret at his inability to come to 

 England to receive the medal in person. 



Zoological Society of London. 



May 1st, 1894. — Dr. A. Gunther, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to 

 the Society's Menagerie during the month of April, and called special 

 attention to a valuable collection of Mammals presented to the Society by 

 Dr. J. Anderson, F.R.S., being part of the proceeds of his recent expedition 

 to Egypt. 



Dr. Gunther exhibited and made remarks on specimens of a South- 

 African Hornbill, Buceros melanoleucus, and of a portion of the tree in 

 which the nest was placed, and spoke of its mode of nesting and of its 

 extraordinary habits during that season. The specimens had been trans- 

 mitted to the British Museum by Dr. Schonland, of Grahamstown. 



Dr. H. E. Sauvage exhibited a vertebra of the earliest known Snake 

 from the gault of Portugal. 



Mr. W. Bateson exhibited a large number of specimens of Gonioctena 

 variabilis, a phytophagous Beetle, from Spain, in illustration of discon- 

 tinuous variation in colour. 



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