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do well to consider whether something further, involving alteration of 

 the bye-laws, may not be necessary. 



The movement was represented as a rebellion of the younger 

 Fellows against fossilisation, but the ballot may, and possibly will by 

 some, be held to show that younger Fellows had no chance against the 

 older and best known names. It was also clear that the younger Fellows 

 themselves strongly supported some of the Council's nominees, and it 

 simply became a contest between the weakest of the Council's nominees, 

 and the strongest of the " rebels," and here the voting was near enough. 

 We hope the Council will devise means of avoiding such a contest in 

 future, since, however desirable it may have been from some points of 

 view, it is to be very much regretted, that as omelets cannot be made 

 without breaking eggs, so the cost here involved making a scape-goat 

 for the Council of a gentleman who was personally in no way to blame. 



The Council might be fairly asked why — as all the nominations 

 were strictly legal — they were not printed alphabetically in a single 

 row. It is surely not well to ear-mark any Ixdui tide candidates by 

 separating them as " goats " from the Council's " sheep." 



Another point comes out in the matter of nominations. The 

 bye-laws direct the Fellows Avho wish to make a nomination to strike 

 out one of the Council's nominees and replace with the name of their 

 own candidate. This makes an election personal at once, and we were 

 grieved to hear that one of the first entomologists of the day had a 

 suspicion that some animus had been shown because his name had, to 

 satisfy the bye-laws, been struck out. We want some simple rule by 

 which Fellows can add names to those proposed by the Council, the 

 whole to go to ballot, without any individual being prejudiced by the 

 mode of his nomination. 



The Council did a commonsense, but possibly illegal, thing in not 

 putting up all the nominees to the vote, including officers. To say 

 that the officers, as such, were not objected to is beside the question. 

 The latter hold their posts for a year, they are nominated for a seat on 

 the Council, and must be elected thereon before they can be elected as 

 officers. Failure to be elected on the Council might render it impos- 

 sible for their nomination as officers to stand, and the appointments 

 would have to be filled by the Council. This only for consideration 

 when an alteration of the bye-laws is being considered. 



We have no doubt that the members of Council will be on their 

 mettle this year. We would only ask that they attend the ordinary 

 meetings as well as make an attendance at the Council meetings 

 whenever at all practicable. 



The following gentlemen were elected Officers and Council for 1902. 

 President, the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. 

 Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., 

 and Mr. Henry Rowland-Brown, M.A. ; Librarian, Mr. George C. 

 Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of Council, Mr. R. Adkin, 

 Professor T. Hudson Beare, F.R.S.E., Mr. Arthur J. Chitty, M.A., 

 Mr. W. L. Distant, Mr. F. DuCane Godman, D.C.L., F.R.S., the Rev. 

 Francis D. Morice,M.A., Professor E. B. Poxilton, D.Sc, F.R.S., Mr. 

 Fjdward Saunders, F.L.S., Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., and Colonel 

 C. Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S. The President announced that he should 

 appoint Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., Professor K. B. Poulton, 

 F.R.S., and Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., as Vice-Presidents for the Session 

 1902—1903. 



