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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OP THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. •• Januarv 14, 1879. Prof. Newton, M.A., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The Chairman opened the proceedings of the meeting with the following remarks :- " Before we proceed to this evening's business, I think all present will deem it only fitting that your Chairman should say a few words in regard to the loss we have suffered by the death of our President since we last met. I a m sure there was no Fellow of the Society who took a livelier or deeper interest in its welfare than did the late Lord Tweeddale ; and if proof of this assertion seem to any one wanting, I have but to refer to the facts that he was not merely content with giving us the countenance of his high social position, not merely content with presiding at our Council Meetings and discharging the formal duties of the office he bore amongst us, but that he actively participated in our scientific work, as witness the valuable and carefully elaborated papers with which he from time to time enriched our publications, the last of which you will hear read tonight. I believe I am right in saying that since these Scientific Meetings were established, we have never had a President who was so well, so intimately, known to the majority of the Fellows who attend them, or one w ho was so competent to appreciate the papers read or the communications made at them • and this, I need not point out to you, has been of great benefit to us. Of Lord Tweeddale's life and labours I shall say PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1879, No. I. 1 |