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many other important papers and discussions read and held during the meeting, but may note with satisfaction the unanimous election of Professor George Darwin as President for 1905, when the meeting is to be held in South Africa. As Sir Henry Roscoe said, Professor George Darwin had been selected by the Council, not because he was Charles Darwin's son, but because he was a most distinguished man of science, and the best fitted of all who were eligible to fill the post. There is no more remarkable instance of the heredity of genius than that furnished by Darwin and his sons, who afford the rare spectacle of the continuance of a special kind of brain.