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XIX.— REPORT OF THE FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



The Forty-fourth. Annual General Meeting of Fellows was held at the Whitehall 

 Eooms, Hotel Metropole, on Tuesday, March 5, 1912. Lieut. -General Sir J. Bevan 

 Edwards, K.C.M.G., C.B., Chairman of Council, presided. Amongst those present 

 were the following : — 



Messrs. G. Adams, E. H. Banks, Major G. S. Beeching, Messrs. R. Bewley, Ralph S. Bond' 

 Admiral Sir N. Bowden-Smith, K.C.B., Messrs. B. Brenan, C.M.G., F. W. Brunton, James 

 Buckland, Allan Campbell, A. R. Canning, P. Clarke, Hon. Sir John A. Cockburn, M.D., 

 K.C.M,G., Captain R. Muirhead CoUins, R.N., C.M.G., Messrs. Archibald R. Colquhoun, Ian D. 

 Colvin, G. E. Cookson, Vaughan Cornish, E. P. Cotton, C. V. Creagh, C.M.G., H. W. Crees, 

 J. E. Dawson, F. W. Dove, F. Dutton, H. F. Eaton, S. Edwards, W. Bowen Evans, 

 W. Herbert Garrison, Henry Grant, Major-General Sir Henry Green, K.C.S.I., C.B., 

 Right Hon. Earl Grey, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., Messrs. C. E. Hawes, T. H. Haynes, Right 

 Hon. Sir Albert H. Hime, K.C.M.G., Mr. J. F. Hogan, Lt.-General Sir Edward Hutton, 

 K.C.M.G., C.B., Messrs. Coleman P. Hyman, Gordon Inglis, Lt.-Colonel A. Weston Jarvis, 

 C.M.G., M.V.O., Mr. Richard Jebb, Sir Godfrey Lagden, K.C.M.G., Colonel D. C. Lamb, 

 Mr. R. Littlejohn, Sir Charles P. Lucas, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Mr. H. J. Mackinder, M.P., Sir 

 John McCaU, M.D., Hon. Mr. Justice Archer Martin, Hon. A. P. Matheson, Messrs. R. L. 

 IVIicheU, C.M.G., Stuart MUIer, Colonel Dudley Mills, R.E., Messrs. A. Moor-Radford, Ben 

 H. Morgan, J. M. P. Muirhead, J. Munford, G. I. Nicholls, R. D. Noble, J. J. Nunan, A. W. 

 Oke, A. L. Pahologus, Dr. G. R. Parkin, C.M.G., Lt.-Colonel J. H. Patterson, D.S.O., Captain 

 F. S. Piper, Mr. E. P. Rathbone, Colonel H. E. Rawson, C.B., Messrs. William C. Robb, 

 Captain C. Slack, Messrs. J. D. SmaU, Gershom Stewart, M.P., Professor Anderson Stuart, 

 Messrs. Ernest E. F. Tarte, S. E. Tench, C. Neumann Thomas, M. Thomson, A. Wyatt Tilby, 

 E. H. TurnbuU, F. B. Vrooman, H. B. Warren, Alexander Watson, L. H. Webber, 

 H. Wilkins, George Wilson, C.B., Sir Harry F. WUson, K.C.M.G., Sir Frederick Young, 

 K.C.M.G., and Mr. J. R. Boose (Secretary). 



The notice convening the meeting having been read, the minutes of the last Annual 

 General Meeting were read and approved. The Report and Statement of Accounts 

 were taken as read. 



The Chairman : I regret to say that yesterday morning I had a letter from the 

 Hon. Treasurer, Sir Montagu Ommanney, stating that, principally for family reasons, 

 he felt obliged to resign the office which he had held for twenty-four years. 



As he is not able to attend here to-day, I will, in the first place, make a few remarks 

 on the Statement of Receipts and Payments which has been presented to you in the 

 Report of the Council. The year which ended on the 31st December 1911 is the first 

 completed year that we have been in occupation of the new building, as we moved into 

 it just before Christmas in 1910. We are now able to take stock of our position, and 

 compare our expenses with those incurred in the old building which we had occupied 

 for twenty-six years. The expenditure has, of course, considerably increased, not 

 only on account of the extension of premises, but also on account of the additional 

 work we have undertaken. Fortunately, the increase in the number of our Fellows 

 has enabled us to meet the increased cost and still have a substantial balance in hand. 



For the purpose of comparing the expenditure last year with that incurred when we 

 were in the old building, it is necessary to make a comparison with that of the year 

 1909 instead of 1910, in which year we had to vacate the building for six months, 

 during its reconstruction. Additional expenditure has been incurred in every item, 

 but these additions are small, except in the three items, Salaries, Pensions and Wages, 

 the Journal, and Rates and Taxes. 



