﻿THE 
  

  

  PKOCEEDINGS 
  

  

  OF 
  

  

  ROYAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  November 
  19, 
  1874?. 
  

  

  WILLIAM 
  SPOTTISWOODE, 
  M.A., 
  Treasurer 
  and 
  Vice- 
  

   President, 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  In 
  pursuance 
  of 
  the 
  Statutes, 
  notice 
  o£ 
  the 
  ensuing 
  Anniversary 
  

   Meeting 
  was 
  given 
  from 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  General 
  Boileau, 
  Mr. 
  De 
  La 
  Rue, 
  Capt. 
  Evans, 
  Dr. 
  Gladstone, 
  and 
  the 
  

   Bight 
  Hon. 
  Lyon 
  Playfair, 
  having 
  been 
  nominated 
  by 
  the 
  President, 
  were 
  

   elected 
  by 
  ballot 
  Auditors 
  of 
  the 
  Treasurer's 
  Accounts 
  on 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   Society. 
  

  

  The 
  decease 
  of 
  Mrs. 
  Hooker 
  having 
  been 
  mentioned 
  from 
  the 
  Chair, 
  

   Sir 
  J 
  ames 
  Alderson 
  proposed, 
  and 
  General 
  Boileau 
  seconded, 
  the 
  follow- 
  

   ing 
  Resolution, 
  which 
  was 
  unanimously 
  agreed 
  to 
  : 
  — 
  " 
  That 
  the 
  Royal 
  

   Society 
  desire 
  to 
  condole 
  with 
  their 
  President 
  for 
  his 
  loss, 
  and 
  to 
  express 
  

   to 
  him 
  their 
  deep 
  sympathy 
  in 
  his 
  great 
  affliction." 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Henry 
  Wyldbore 
  Rumsey 
  was 
  admitted 
  into 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  The 
  Presents 
  received 
  were 
  laid 
  on 
  the 
  table, 
  and 
  thanks 
  ordered 
  for 
  

   them. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  Papers 
  were 
  read 
  :— 
  

  

  I. 
  " 
  Note 
  to 
  the 
  ' 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  Exploration 
  of 
  Brixham 
  Cave 
  ' 
  

   (Phil. 
  Trans. 
  1873)." 
  By 
  G. 
  Busk, 
  F.R.S., 
  V.P.L.S. 
  Re- 
  

   ceived 
  June 
  22, 
  1874. 
  

  

  With 
  reference 
  to 
  Prof. 
  Owen's 
  correction 
  of 
  the 
  erroneous 
  English 
  

   equivalent 
  for 
  Lagomys 
  spelceus 
  (which 
  occurs, 
  not 
  in 
  the 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  

   Animal 
  Remains, 
  but 
  in 
  the 
  " 
  General 
  Conclusions 
  respecting 
  the 
  Brix- 
  

   ham 
  Cave," 
  accompanied, 
  however, 
  with 
  the 
  proper 
  scientific 
  name), 
  I 
  have 
  

   merely 
  to 
  remark 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  of 
  course 
  a 
  very 
  obvious 
  erratum. 
  It 
  is 
  one, 
  

  

  VOL. 
  XXIII. 
  B 
  

  

  