Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London - University Library

12 PROCEEDINGS OF THE
2. The Evolution of the Australian Marsupialia ; with Eemarks
on the Eelationships of the Marsupials in general." By Mr. B.
Arthur Beusley, (Communicated by Prof. G. B. Howes,
Sec. L.S.)
3. " Copepoda Calanoida from the Faroe Channel and other parts
of the North Atlantic." By the Eev. Canon Norman, F.E.S.,
r.L.s.
May 25th, 1903.
Anniversary Meeting.
Prof. Sydney H. Vines, F.E.S,, President, in the Chair.
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.
Dr. Felix Eugen Fritsch and Mr. Thomas George Hill were
admitted Fellows of the Society.
The Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing on behalf of the Auditors presented
the accounts of the past financial year ending on the 30th April
(see p. 13).
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Mr. Heney Gboves expressed a hope that Dr. Prior's legacy of
£100 would be applied to the permanent benefit of the Society,
and asked for information as to an apparent increase in the
Salaries.
The General Secretary pointed out that the usual employment
of legacies was by the purchase of books for the Libraiy, each
volume bearing a label of its origin from the testator in question ;
he also stated that the apparent increase was due to a gilt of .£50
to Mr. Harting on his removal from the residential rooms
belonging to the Society.
The General Secretary read his report of deaths, withdrawals,
and elections as follows :
Since the last Anniversary Meeting 12 Fellows had died or their
deaths been ascertained :
Mr. Edwin Bostock.
Mr. William Bull.
Mr. J. AVilliam Groves.
Mr. Charles C. P. Hobkirk.
Mr. Alfred Vaughan Jennings.
Mr. W..T.Hume McCorquodale.
Mr. Charles Maries.
Eev. John James Muir.
Dr. E. C. Alexander Prior.
Sir Charles Shelley.
Mr. Charles Marcus Wakefield.
Eev. Thomas Wiltshh'e.