118 PROCEEDINGS OF THE S0CIP:TY. 



that for the first time in several years the expenses were less than the 

 receipts. This was mainly effected by the large reduction in the cost of 

 the Journal. There was every reason to hope that things would continue 

 to improve, and that each succeeding year would show a good balance 

 sheet. 



The foregoing Financial Statement had been examined and compared 

 with the Society's vouchers, and the securities verified and all found to be 

 correct, and had been signed by the Auditors, Messrs. Hill and Sheppard. 



Mr. Percy E. Radley proposed that the Eeport of the Council and the 

 Cash Statement should be adopted. 



Mr. Taverner seconded the proposal, which was carried unanimously. 



The President announced that the Scrutineers having handed in their 

 Report as to the result of the Ballot, the following Fellows proposed l)y the 

 Council had been duly elected as the Officers and Council of the Society 

 for the ensuing year : — 



President— Vxot G. Sims Woodhead, M.A. M.D. LL.D. F.R.S.E., etc. 



Vice-Presidents — J. E. Barnard ; Henry Geo. Plimmer, F.R.S. F.L.S. 

 F.Z.S., etc. ; Percy E. Radley ; Charles F. Rousselet. 



Treasurer — Cyril F. Hill. 



Secretaries— :i. W. H. Eyre, M.D. F.R.S.E. ; F. Shillington Scales, 

 M.A. M.D. B.C. (Cantab.). 



Ordinary Members of Council — Wynne E. Baxter, J. P. D.L. F.G.S. ; 

 Conrad Beck ; Frederic J. Cheshire : A. N, Disney, M.A. B.Sc. ; 

 Arthur Earland ; R. G. Hebb, M.A. M.D. F.R.C.P. : Edward Heron- 

 Allen, F.L.S. F.G.S. F.Z.S. ; John Hopkinson, F.L.S. F.G.S. F.Z.S. : 

 Max Poser ; Julius Rheinbers; ; David J. Scourfield, F.Z.S. ; 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 — J. E. Barnard. 



The President then gave his annual address, entitled " Bedellus im- 

 7?^orte/^.s•," - in which he dealt with the life-work of Anthony van Leeu- 

 wenhoek. 



Mr. Michael said he had been asked to propose the usual resolution, 

 that of returning thanks to their President for his excellent address. 

 It was always particularly interesting when a gentleman like their 

 President, who was one of those in the forefront of his own special 

 l)rancli of study (to which they were treated in the Presidential Address 

 of last year), went back to what might be called the early days of 

 science, Ijecause it enabled one to grasp the progress which the sciences 

 had made during a considerable period ; one saw also, more than perhaps 

 one otherwise would, the difiiculties through which these early men of 

 science struggled. The extraordinary march of modern science con- 

 nected with a long list of names of scientific renown, seemed to diminish 

 somewhat in splendour when one realized the wonderful work accom- 

 plished by Leeuwenhoek, and one was lost in astonishment that with 



