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The Librarian's report was read, sliowing that doiiation-s from 

 private individuals and editors amounted to 107 volumes and 

 347 pamphlets and parts, by exchange 119 vohnnes and 682 de- 

 tached ])arts, by purchase (54 volumes and 267 parts ; in all, the 

 accessions amounted to 290 volumes and 1296 pamphlets and 

 separate parts. 



Books bound amounted to 497 : 4 in half-morocco, 47 in 

 buckram, 183 in half-buckram, 142 in cloth, and 121 rebacked. 



Tlie General Secretary having read the Bye-laws governing the 

 Elections, the President opened the busines^s of the day, and the 

 Fellows present proceeded to ballot. 



The Ballot for the C'ouiu-il liaving been closed, the President 

 appointed Dr. O. Srapf, Dr. J. R. Leeson, and Mr. A. W. Sheppard 

 Scrutineers; and these, having examined the ballot-papers and 

 cast up the \otes, reported tb the President, who declared the 

 Council to be as follows : — 



Prof. Margaret Benson, D.Sc. ; * Prof. V. II. Blackman, 

 F.K.S.; E. T. Browne, M.A. ; Henry Bury, M.A. ; Stanley 

 Edwards, F.Z.S.; Prof. E. S. Goodrich, E.E.S. : *Dame Hele>- 

 G^VYNNE-VAUGHAN, D.B.E. : *Sir Sidney E. Harmer, K.B.E., 

 F.E.S. ; Dr. B. Daydon Jackson ; C. C. Lacaita, M.A. ; Gerald 

 AY. E. LoDER, M.A.; HoRACK AV. Monckton, F.G.8. ; Beginald I. 

 PococK, F.R.S. ; *Capt. John Ramsbottom, M.A. ; Dr. A. B. 

 Rendle, F.R.S. ; The Rt. Hon. Lionel AValter, Baron Roth- 

 schild, F.R.S. ; Dr. E. J. Salisbury ; Charles Edgar Salmon, 

 Esq.; *Thomas a. Sprague, B.Sc. ; and Dr. A. SiiiTH AV'ood- 

 WARD, F.R.S. 



(New Councillors are shown by an asterisk. The retiring Coun- 

 cillors were: Mr. E. G. Baker; Prof. J. B. Farmer, F.R.S.; 

 Capt. A. W. Hill, F.R.S, ; Miss A. Lorrain Smith ; and Lt.-Col. 

 J. H. TuLL Walsh.) 



The Ballot for the Officers having been closed, the President 

 appointed tlie same Scrutineers ; and these, having examined the 

 Ballot-papers and cast up the votes, reported to the President, 

 who declared the result as follows : — 



President : Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward, F.R.S. 



Treasurer: Horace W. Monckton, F.G.S. 



Secretaries : Dr. B. Daydon Jackson. 



Prof. E. S. Goodrich, F.R.S. 

 Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.R.S. 



The President then delivered an Address entitled " Observations 

 on some Extinct Elasmobranch Fishes, " Mhich « aa illustrated by 

 many lantern-slides (see p. 29). 



