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the ensuing year, for whom a Ballot would be taken in the usual way at 

 their next Meeting. 



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



Vice-Presidents — Messrs. Beck, Disney, Eyre, and Scott. 



Council — Messrs. Carr, Allen, Karop, R. Moreland, Pliminer, Powell, 

 Price-Jones, Radley, Rheinberg, Rousselet, Spitta, and Sir Ford North. 



Treasurer — W. E. Baxter. 



Secretaries — W. H. Dallinger and R. G. Hebb. 



Librarian — P. E. Radley. 



Curator — C. F. Rousselet. 



Mr. J. M. Allen was appointed as Auditor of the Society's accounts 

 on behaK of the Council, and the Fellows present were asked by the 

 President to elect one of their number as Auditor on behalf of them- 

 selves. 



Mr. C. L. Curties was thereupon proposed, seconded, and duly 

 elected as Auditor on behalf of the Fellows of the Society. 



A vote of thanks to Messrs. Beck was unanimously passed for the 

 loan of the Microscopes, under which the specimens in illustration of 

 Mr. Rogers' paper were exhibited. 



It was announced that their next Meeting would be their Anniversary, 

 at which the Report and Accounts for the year 1906 would be submitted, 

 and Officers and Council for the ensuing year would be elected, and the 

 retiring President would give his Annual Address, the subject of which 

 would be, " The Flowering Plants of the Mesozoic Age in the Light of 

 Recent Discoveries." 



It was also announced that the Rooms of the Society would be closed 

 from December 21st to 31st. 



The following Instruments, Objects, etc., were exhibited: — 



The Society : — Photographic Portrait of the late Andrew Ross ; 

 Dissecting Stand and Live-Box in wood, made by the late Latimer 

 Clark, C.E. 



The following slides selected from the Collection recently presented 

 by Mr. James Hilton : — Argus Butterfly, Battledore scales ; Aveuturine, 

 Black Coral (Antipathes) ; Butterfly scales, Papilio Amphinome ; Decom- 

 posed ancient glass ; Foraminifera, Lagense, selected ; Gorgonia spicules ; 

 Scale from a leaf, the work of a fly ; Sand from New Providence, 

 Bahamas ; Sponge cuticle, from Fremantle ; Sponge, section showing 

 banded arrangement of spicules ; Sponge, Grantia sp. ; Sponge, Geodia 

 Baretti, ditto spicules ; Tertiary Fossils ; Volvox, mounted in 1849. 



Mr. F. Rogers : — Photographs, and the following Objects in illus- 

 tration of his paper : — 



1. A specimen of circular cross-section, for mechanical test only. 



