LINNEAN SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



Ivii 



January 16th, 1862. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



William Chapman Hewitson, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Nathaniel Haslope Mason, Esq., who was proposed for Ejection 

 on the 5th of December, was balloted for and ejected, in confor- 

 mity with the Bye-laws, chapter 7, section 2 ; and the President, 

 in conformity with the same section of the Bye-laws, cancelled 

 his name in the Register, and pronounced him to be no longer a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



The President announced that, at the Meeting of Council on 

 the 9th instant, an Address of Condolence to Her Majesty on the 

 Death of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort was agreed 

 upon, and had since been sent accordingly to Sir George Grey : 

 which Address was read to the Meeting, as follows : — 



" To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. 



" Madam, 



" We, Your Majesty's loyal and devoted subjects, the 

 President and Council of the Linnean Society of London, in view 

 of the great and calamitous bereavement which has befallen Tour 

 Majesty, and which has plunged the nation in one common grief, 

 cannot refrain from offering to Tour Majesty the heartfelt tribute 

 of our sympathy and condolence. The noble qualities both of 

 head and heart with which The Prince Consort was endowed, his 

 extensive and varied acquirements, his sound judgment, the emi- 

 nently practical character of his views, the excellence of his dis- 

 position, and the warm cordiality with which his enlightened mind 

 applied itself to the support of every useful object and the promo- 

 tion of every good work, had obtained for him so firm a hold on the 

 public mind and affection, that his loss to the nation can be regarded 

 as secondary only to that which Tour Majesty has sustained. 



" By us, especially, as one of the Scientific Institutions of the 

 land amongst whose members His Royal Highness was pleased to 

 allow his name to be enrolled, his loss will be doubly and deeply 

 felt, on account of the warm interest which, both by inclination 

 and by study, he was ever ready to take in everything affecting 

 the interests of science. 



" Laying before Tour Majesty this our humble tribute of con- 

 dolence, we fervently pray that the Divine Disposer of Events 



