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The Ballot having been closed, the President appointed Dv. 

 Ethel N. Thomas, Mr. B. B. Woodward, and Mr. liobert Paulson 

 to be Scrutineers ; and these, having examined the Ballot-papers 

 and cast up the votes, reported to the President, who declared 

 the Council to be as follows : — 



Mrs. AoNES AiiBEit, D.Sc. ; Edmund G. Bakee, Esq. ; 

 William Bateson, F.R.S. ; R. H. Burne, Esq. ; Sir Frank 

 Crisp, Bart. ; *Stanley Edwards, F.Z.S. ; *Prof. J. B. Farmer, 

 F.E.S. : E. S. Goodrich, F.R.S. ; Dr. B. Daydon Jackson; 

 *C. C. Laoaita, Esq.; Miss G. Lister; Horack W. Monckton, 

 F.G.S. ; Dr. G. E. Nicholls ; Prof. H. G. Plimmer, F.R.S. ; 

 *R Innes Pocock, F.R.S.; Sir David Prain, C.M.G., C.I.E., 

 F.R.S.; Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.R.S.; Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S.; 

 *Miss A. LoRRAiN Smith ; Lt.-Col. J. H. Tull Walsh. 



(New members of Council are shown by an asterisk ; the retiring 

 Councillors being : Mr. E. T. Browne, Mr. A. D. Cotton, Mr. 

 James Groves, Mr. Gerald Loder, and Dr. A. E. Shipley.) 



The Ballot for the Council having been closed, the President 

 appointed the same Scrutineers ; and these, having examined the 

 Ballot-papers and cast up the number of votes, reported to the 

 President, who declared the result as follows : — 



President : Sir David Prain, C.M.G., C.I.E., F.H.S. 



T)-easurer : Horace W. Monckton, F.G.S. 



Secretaries : Dr. B. Daydon Jackson, 

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

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



The President then delivered his Presidential Address, " On the 

 Effecis of the Business of Life on tliH Beginnings of the Science 

 of Natural History." 



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