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to print the name of any gentleman on the ballot paper for nomination 

 to the office of Treasurer. In these circumstances the Council had 

 availed itself of its powers under the bye-laws, and had filled up the 

 vacancy by appointing Mr. Vezey, who was intimately acquainted with 

 the accounts of the Society, Treasurer for the time being. Owing to 

 the excellent order in which Mr. Suffolk had left the accounts, Mr. Vezey 

 had, at a very short notice, been able to prepare the balance,, sheet for 

 audit, and therefore the business of the evening would not be delayed. 

 He now asked those Fellows who approved of the Council's nomination, 

 to fill in Mr. Vezey's name as Treasurer on the ballot paper, and the 

 name of Mr. E. T. Browne for the vacancy among the twelve Members 

 of Council. 



Dr. Hebb then read the Eeport of the Council for the past year, as 

 follows : — 



EEPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1899. 



FELLOWS. 



Ordinary. — During the year 1899, 29 new Fellows were elected, 

 11 have died, 14 have resigned, and 16 have been removed from the 

 list for the non-payinent of subscriptions and other causes. 



Honorary. — Two Honorary Fellows, the Abbe Comte Francois 

 Castracane and Surgeon-Major Geo. Chas. Wallich, have died. 



The list of Fellows now contains the names of 494 Ordinary, 

 1 Corresponding, 46 Honorary, and 83 Ex-Officio Fellows, being a total 

 of 624. 



FINANCES. 



Subscriptions. — These are somewhat larger than those of last year, 

 a special effort having been made to reduce the amount of arrears at the 

 end of the year. 



The item of receipts for the sale of Journals is considerably less 

 than that in last year's balance-sheet ; this is largely due to a different 

 arrangement with the publishers, referred to in last year's Eeport, by 

 which the account for 1898 received three half-years' payments. 



Investments. — The investments remain the same as for last year, but 

 the sum of 63/., the amount of two compounding fees, has been added 

 to the deposit account, and the amount of the admission fees received 

 during the year will be placed to the same account early in the new 

 year. These sums will be invested as soon as a suitable opportunity 

 presents itself. 



JOURNAL. 



The Summary of Current Eesearches in Zoology, Botany, and 

 Microscopy has been continued as heretofore in the Journal during the 

 past year, with the addition of a new feature, or rather the reintroduc- 

 tion of one discontinued since the year 1892, viz. a Bibliography of all 

 papers on Microscopy (including also Microtomes) accessible to the 

 editorial staff, published in this country or elsewhere. It is hoped that 

 this will be useful to anyone investigating any point connected with the 



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