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REPORT OF THE 
with the assistance of the Keeper of the Museum, the Council 
have not thought it requisite to propose a successor to Mr. 
Kenrick. 
The Honorary Members proposed by the Council for election 
at this Meeting are, Mr. John Hope Shaw, of Leeds, and Mr. 
S. P. Woodward, of the British Museum. The former gentle¬ 
man is one of the leading members of the Leeds Philosophical 
Society, and has taken the greatest interest in the proposed 
plan for the co-operation of all the Philosophical Societies of 
Yorkshire, of which he is in fact the originator. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward’s high position as a Zoologist and Palaeontologist, and 
the interest which he takes in the welfare of this Museum, 
render his enrolment in the list of Honorary Members particu¬ 
larly desirable. Of Foreign Honorary Members, the Council 
also propose two, namely, Mr. J. D. Dana, the celebrated 
American Mineralogist and Zoologist, and M. Boucher de 
Perthes, of Abbeville, who has enriched our Library with 
several important works, and whose researches into the early 
history of mankind have lately attracted so much attention. 
Amongst the losses which the Society has sustained during 
the past year, there are some to which the Council cannot 
avoid alluding more particularly. The late Lord Londesborough 
had been for many years a member of the Society, and had 
contributed with his accustomed liberality to its funds. The 
Library also is indebted to him for several valuable Antiquarian 
works, especially the beautiful illustrations of his own collec¬ 
tion of Antiquities, contained in the “ Miscellanea Graphica.” 
Lord Londesborough was one of the Vice-Presidents of the 
Society at the time of his death. The death of Earl de Grey 
diminishes the list of the contributors to the original Building 
Fund and also that of the Society’s Trustees. The Society was 
likewise indebted to his lordship for the liberality with which 
he gave up his interest in the land granted to the Society by 
the Crown, and for a liberal contribution to the Museum 
Enlargement Fund. Of the Honorary Members the Society 
has to regret the loss of Sir Thomas Macdougal Brisbane, 
Bart., who died on the 28th January, in the present year. Sir 
Thomas entered the army in 1789, when only sixteen years of 
