6 PEOCBBDINGS OF THE 



Natural History Museum, iu order to use it for Government 

 offices : 



Their emphatic ])rotest at a procedure whicli iDust eudanger 

 priceless and irreplaceable possessions acquired at great cost 

 and infinite labour during the last 200 years, constituting the 

 most splendid juuseuni in existence and the recognized centre 

 of systematic scientitic research : 



Their dismay at a resolution which must paralyse scientitic 

 activities that during the past three years have been devoted 

 to work intimately connected with the prosecution of 

 the war : 



And at the expenditure of a large sum in adapting unsuit- 

 able buildings, wiiilst other and more suitable accommoda- 

 tion might be provided at much less cost : 



And finally to emphasize the disgrace which must accrue 

 to the Nation in the eyes of the whole world, by the evidence 

 thus afforded of the inability of the Government to appreciate 

 the essential value to the Natioii of scientific assistance such 

 as the British Museum has rendered and is capable of 

 rendering. 



That copies of the foregoing Eesolution be sent to H.M. 

 the King, our Patron, the Prime iMinister and the other 

 members of the War Council, Lord Sudeley, the Trustees of 

 the British Museum, and the daily Press. 



These were seconded by Prof. A. C. Seward, F.R.S., and sup- 

 ported and discussed by Dr. A. B. Eendle, F.R.S., Sec.L.S., 

 Dr. A. Smith AVoodward, P.E.S., Dr. F. D. Godman, F.R.S. (by 

 telegraph), Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., Prof. A. Dendy, F.E.S., 

 Dr. Ethel N. Thomas, Mr. J. Britten, Mrs. Haig Thomas, Mr. 

 E. M. Holmes, Lt.-Col. J. H. Tull Walsh, Mr. C. P. Ogilvie, and 

 Prof. J. Percival, and on being put from the Chair wei'e adopted 

 unanimously. 



The report of the Donations received since the last General 

 Meeting was laid before the Fellow s, and the thanks of the Society 

 to the several Donors were ordered. 



Mr. James Watt was admitted a Fellow. 



Mr. George Claridge Druce, Hon.M.A. (Oxon.), was elected a 

 Fellow. 



The first paper was by Mr. E. S. Goodkich, F.E.S., Sec.L.S., 

 on the Rtsl oration of the Superficial Bones of the Head of the 

 Fossil fisti Osteoh/iis, illustrated with lantern-slides. Having 

 shown the restorations of Pander, Gregory, arul Watson, which 

 differ considerably from each other, Mr. Goodrich described his 

 o\\ n restoration of the bones and lateral-line canal system, and 

 drew attention to the importance of an accurate knowledge of the 



