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260 remaining in hand after payment of all current expenses, while the sum of £700 had been invested since the last Annual Report.

The alterations in the Bye Laws (concerning an increase in the rate for Fellows compounding) proposed by the Council on the 18th of April, having been formally hung up in the Common Meeting Room of the Society, and duly read by the President and by the Vice-President in the chair at the last two General Meetings of the Society, were put to the ballot, and con- firmed bv the Fellows at large in the terms of the charter.

The senior Secretary then announced the death, during the past year, of fourteen Fellows, including four foreign members. Against this, thirty- eight new Fellows and five foreign members had been elected. Among the deceased were several men of repute in the scientific world. Mr. Henry Adams, well known as a conchologist ; Dr. Elias Fries, of Upsala, a large contributor to our knowledge of the Swedish Flora, especially its cryptogamic botany ; Mr. Andrew Murray, chiefly credited as an entomologist, but nevertheless well versed in several kindred branches, and particularly known by his work, 'On the Geographical Distribution of Mammals;' Prof. Parlatore, of Florence, an eminent Italian botanist; Mr. H. Fox Talbot, whose name is indelibly connected with photography; Dr. R. Visiani, of Padua, a distinguished botanist; Dr. H. A. Weddell, of Potiers, whose important contributions to the Flora of the Cordilleras and on the Cinchona tribe are well known ; and Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston, the distinguished author of "Insecta Maderensia" and "Testacea Atlantica."

The following gentlemen were elected into the Council : — Mr. John Ball, Dr Thomas Boycott, Mr. Frederick DuCane Godman, Dr. Albert Gunther, and the Rev. George Henslow, in the room of the subjoined, who retired by rotation — Mr. J. G. Baker, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, Mr. Henry Lee, Prof. W. K. Parker, and Mr. S. J. A. Salter.

The President and officers of the Society were all re-elected.

June 4, 1878.— Prof. F.R.S., V.P., in the chair.

The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of May, 1878, and called special attention to two male Lesser Birds of Paradise (Paradisea minor), purchased on the '2nd of May ; a Copper-headed Snake (Cenchris centortrix), presented by Dr. F. Painter, F.Z.S., of South Pittsburg, Tennessee, U.S.A., and a Hairy or Andean Tapir (Tapirus roulini), obtaiued by exchange.

Mr. Sclater exhibited a young specimen of Temminck's Manis (Manis Temmincki), and read a note describing habits of this animal in captivity by Mr. F. Holmwood, Assistant Political Agent at Zanzibar,