114 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. .^ 



During August the R.M.S. table at the Plymouth Laboratory was 

 placed at the disposal of Mr. A. Clavering Hardy, and some useful work 

 was accomplished by that gentleman. 



Mr. Marshall moved, and Mr. Pledge seconded, that the Annual 

 Report and Balance Sheet be received and adopted. Carried. 



Mr. Cuzner moved, and Mr. A. W. Sheppard seconded, that a very 

 hearty vote of thanks be tendered to the Honorary Officers and Members 

 of the (*ouncil for their services to the Society during the past year. 

 Carried. 



The President appointed Mr. Cuzner and Mr. Whitfield to act as 

 Scrutineers, and afterwards announced the result of the IxiUot for the 

 election of Officers and Council for the ensuing year as follows :— 



President.— J. W. H. Eyre, M.D., M.S., F.R.S.Edin. 



Vice-Presidents. — Sir George Sims Woodhead, K.B.E., M.A.. M.l)., 

 LL.D., etc. ; Frederic J. Cheshire, C.B.E., F.Inst.P. : Percy E. Radlev ; 

 David J. Scourfield, F.Z.S. 



Treasurer. — Cyril F. Hill 



Secretaries. — Joseph E. Barnard, F.Inst.P. ; James A. Murray, M.D. 



Council.— lsi&x\x\CQ A. Ainsiie, Pt.N. ; S. C. Akehurst ; W. E. Watson 

 Baker; Aubrey H. Drew, D.Sc. ; F. Martin Duncan, F.Pt.P.S., F.Z.S. ; 

 Arthur Earland ; E. Heron-Allen, F.P.S. ; T. H. Hiscott ; Julius 

 Pheinberg ; E. J. Sheppard : Clarence Tierney, M.S., D.Sc. ; Joseph 

 Wilson. 



Librarian. — F, Martin Duncan, F.R.P.S., F.Z.S. 



Editor.— V\\2iX\Q^ Singer, M.A., M.D. 



Cur((tor of Instruments. — W. E. Watson Baker. 



Curator of Slides. — E. J. Sheppard. 



Curator of Metal htrf/ical Specimens. — F. Ian (J. Rawlins. 



A vote of thanks to the Scrutineers was moved from the Chair and 

 carried. 



Mr. Scourfield exhiliited a further selection from Dr. Penard's 

 preparations of Rhizopoda and Heliozoa presented to the Society last 

 year, and called attention to the great value of the Collection to those 

 working on those groups. 



The President then delivered his Presidential Address, " Twenty- 

 five Years' Bacteriological Work : a Personal Retrospect." 



Mr. Mortimer moved : " That the best thanks of this meeting be 

 accorded to Professor Eyre for his Presidential Address, and that he 

 be asked to allow it to be printed in the Journal of the Society."' 



Mr. E. J. Sheppard seconded the proposal, wliich was carried by 

 acclamation. 



