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for their vote of sympathy and thanks, but thought he ought to ask 

 them to include their Assistant-Secretary, Mr. Parsons, without whose 

 help it would be quite impossible for him to carry on the work. 



A vote of thanks to the Auditors and Scrutineers was then proposed 

 by Mr. Gardner and seconded by Mr. Pigg. 



The Chairman in putting this to the Meeting remarked that Auditors 

 and Scrutineers were very important people and well deserving of their 

 thanks. The work they undertook was a labour of love, and he was 

 afraid like most labours of love was very likely to be easily forgotten, so 

 he hoped the Fellows present would receive the motion with pronounced 

 acclamation. 



The motion was unanimously carried. 



The Scrutineers having handed in their report as to the result of 

 the Ballot, the Chairman declared the following gentlemen to have been 

 duly elected as the Officers and Council of the Society for the ensuing 

 year : — 



President— The Right Hon. Lord Avebury, P.C. F.R.S., etc. 



Vice-Presidents— Conrad Beck ; Rev. W. H. Dallinger, LL.D. D.Sc. 

 D.C.L. F.R.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. ; J. W. H. Eyre, M.D. F.R.S. (Edin.) ; 

 The Right Hon. Sir Ford North, P.C. F.R.S. 



Treasurer— Wynne E. Baxter, J.P. F.G.S. F.R.G.S. 



Secretaries— J. W. Gordon ; R. G. Hebb, M.A. M.D. F.R.C.P. 



Ordinar// Members of Council — Rev. Edmund Carr, M.A. F.R.Met.S. ; 

 Frederic J. Cheshire ; A. N. Disnev, M.A. B.Sc. ; George C. Karop, 

 M.R.C.S, ; Henry Geo. Primmer, F.L.S. ; Thomas H. Powell ; C. Price- 

 Jones, M.B. (Lond.) ; P. E. Radley ; Charles F. Rousselet ; F. Shil- 

 ling-ton Scales ; David J. Scourfield ; E. J. Spitta, L.R.C.P. (Lond. 

 M.R.C.S. (Eng.). 



Librarian — -Percy E. Radley. 



Curator of Instruments, etc. — Charles F. Rousselet. 



Curator of Slides — F. Shillington Scales, B.A. (Cantab). 



The Chairman then called attention to what might, he said, be 

 termed a novel situation. For some years past the Meeting, instead of 

 having two Secretaries present had never had more than one, upon 

 whom, they all were aware, had fallen the heat and burden of the day. 

 To-night, however, the novel situation to which he had referred would 

 take place, for the Fellows were about to see the vacant chair once more 

 filled, and filled he was glad to say, by one whom he believed would be 

 a very active worker in the interests of the Society. He therefore, 

 without further delay, would at once ask Mr. Gordon, whom the Fellows 

 had elected to the vacant chair, to come upon the platform and take it. 

 He hoped sincerely that Dr. Hebb would start his co-secretary to work 

 at once, and give him plenty of it too, so that the numerous details of 

 the secretarial office might be shared for the future in a more fitting 

 and appropriate manner. 



Mr. Gordon in suitable terms expressed his thanks to the Chairman 

 for his kind words and to the Fellows of the Society for his election. 



The Chairman said they were to have had a paper that evening read 

 by Mr. AVesche, " On the Microscope as an Aid to the Study of Biology in 



