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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
Meeting of 15th June, 1892, at 20, Hanover Square, W., 
The President (Dr. E. Braithwaite, F.L.S.) in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the meeting of 18th May last were read and con- 
firmed, and were signed by the President. 
The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints), received 
since the last meeting was submitted, and the thanks of the Society 
given to the donors. 
From 
Braithwaite, R., British Moss Flora. Pt. xiv. (4to, London,] 
1892) J 
Six Slides of Hydroid Zoophytes 
Zimmermanu, A., Botanische Mikrotechnik. (8vo, Tubingen, 1892) 
The Author. 
Mr. E. Hinton. 
The Author. 
Dr. W. H. Dallinger called special attention to six slides of Hy- 
droid Zoophytes presented to the Society by Mr. Hinton, which were 
upon the table for exhibition ; he also mentioned that they had received 
an advance copy of Part xiv„ of the ‘ British Moss Flora * from their 
President. 
The President said it was probably known to all present that on 
the morning of the day of their last meeting their old friend Mr. W. "W. 
Eeeves departed this life, the news reaching them on the following day. 
He had been ill for six or seven months, and had gone down into York- 
shire to stay with his sister at whose house he died, and to whom it was 
proposed to send a letter of condolence from the Society. The President 
remarked that he had known Mr. Eeeves personally for over thirty 
years, and had valued his friendship and his ready willingness to place 
his botanical knowledge at the disposal of any one who required his 
assistance. Mr. Eeeves was almost the founder of the Quekett Club 
Excursions, from which, whilst in health, he was rarely absent. He was 
also most regular in his attendance at the meetings of the Society and 
had been a member of its council for a number of years ; they would 
regard his loss with very great regret. It was a fancy with some people 
to poke fun at him, but those who knew him intimately knew him to be 
one of the gentlest and kindest creatures they ever met with. 
The President said they were unfortunately in the position of being 
without a paper for the meeting that evening ; he hoped, therefore, that 
if any Fellow had any subject of interest which he could bring forward 
for discussion, he would do so. 
Dr. Dallinger said that their Scientific Societies appeared to afford 
instances of the reversal of the activities of nature, for whereas in 
nature all around them they saw as the summer-time approached every- 
thing in the vegetable and animal world filled with renewed vigour, in 
a Society such as theirs it seemed as if their energies became impaired ; 
