PROCEEDINGS 



or THE 



L1N;\EAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(ONE HUiNDEED AXD SEVENTEENTH SESSION, 

 1904-1905.) 



November 3rd, 1904. 



Prof. "W. A. Hhedman, F.R.S., President, in the Chair, 



The Minutes of the Greiieral Meeting of the 16th June were 

 read and confirmed. 



The Presideistt, in greeting the Fellows on the opening of the 

 Session, alluded to the welcome addition to the Society's rooms, by 

 the acquisition of the quarters formerly occupied by the Post Office, 

 and the consequent changes in the Library and Council Room. 



Mr. Allan Octavian Hume, C.B., was admitted a Fellow. 



Mr. Percy Appleyard, F.C.S., Mr. Richard Hind Cambage, 

 Mr. Thomas Bennett Goodall, and Mr. Richard Norris Wolfenden, 

 M.D. Cantab., were proposed as Fellows. 



The Resolution of Council of the 2nd June, " That the existing 

 Bye-Laws of the Society be, and they are hereby, repealed, and 

 that the following Bye-Laws be established in lieu thereof,"' was 

 then introduced ; the President explaining that under the Charters 

 it was incumbent on the Council to present all new or changed 

 Bye-Laws to tlie Vote ot the Fellows by ballot, after being twice 

 read from the Chair: consequently no modification could take 



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