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Mr. T. A. Dymes enquired concerniug certain Fellows with- 

 drawing, and was replied to by the General Secretary. 



The Librarian's Report was submitted as follows ; — 



During the year there have been received as donations from 

 private individuals and the editors and proprietors of independent 

 journals, 95 volumes and 18-i pamphlets and parts. 



From the various Universities, Academies, and Scientific 

 Societies, with which the Society is in correspondence, there 

 have been received in exchange, 190 volumes and 133 detached 

 parts. 



The Council, at the recommendation of the Library Committee, 

 have sanctioned the purchase of 155 volumes and 95 parts of 

 important works. 



During the year the Library also received by donation from 

 Mr. Thomas Henry Riches, E.Z.S., 509 volumes, among them 

 being many welcome additions, which had belonged to the late 

 Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., F.R.S., F.L.S. 



The total additions to the Library are therefore 949 volumes 

 and 412 pamphlets and separate parts. 



The number of books bound during the year was 615, of which 

 3 were in whole morocco, 369 in half-morocco, 25 in buckram, 

 214 in ch)th, and 4 re-labelled. 



New shelving for the accommodation of the books presented by 

 Mr. Riches has been provided in the Residence at the expense of 

 Sir Frank Crisp, Bart. 



The General Secretary having read the Bye-Laws governing 

 the elections, the Vice-President in the Chair opened the busines-s 

 of the day, and the Fellows present proceeded to vote for the 

 Council and Officers. 



The Ballot for the Council having been closed, the Vice-President 

 in the Chair appointed Mr. L. A. Boodle, Mr. F. N. Williams, and 

 Mr. T. A. Dymes, Scrutineers ; these having examined the Ballot- 

 papers and cast up the Votes, reported to the Vice-President in 

 the Chair, who declared the result as follows : — 



Mrs. Agnes Arber, D.Sc. ; Richard Assheton, F.R.S. ; Dr. W. 

 T. Calman; a. D. Cotton, Esq. ; Sir Frank Crisp, Bart. : James 

 Groves, Esq.; Prof. D. T. Gwynne-Vaughan, M.A. ; Prof. W. 

 A. Herdman, F.R.S. ; Dr. B. Daydon Jackson ; Miss G. Lister ; 

 Prof. E. A. MiNCHiN, F.R.S.; Horace W. Monckton, F.G.S. ; 

 Dr. C. E. Moss; Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S.; Dr. A. B. 

 Rendle, F.R.S.; Hugh Scott, M.A. : Prof. A. C. Seward, 

 F.R.S.; Dr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S.; Dr. Otto Stapf, F.R.S.; 

 Comr. J. J. Walker, R.N. 



The Ballot for the Officers having been closed, the Vice-President 

 in the Chair appointed the same Scrutineers, and these having 

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