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two months, and the only difficulty that he had exi^erienced was that it 

 was too uniformly approved. He spoke of that as a "difficulty" because 

 it was always desirable when what might be termed radical changes 

 were mooted, that both sides of the question should be placed before 

 the meeting, which was thereby enabled to come to a sounder decision. 

 At the eleventh hoiir, however, he had been able to meet with a 

 Fellow who entertained some objections. 



Mr. J. W. Stephenson having seconded the motion, 

 Mr. Curties said that his objection to Mr. Crisp's proposal 

 might be stated in a word. He thought, as Mr. Ghaisher had put it, 

 that the societies should pay a small subscription, as it was intended 

 that they should receive the Journal free of charge. It seemed to 

 him that if they were to be giving their valuable Journal in perpetuity 

 in this way, they might some day have cause to be sorry for it. 

 Whether this liberality was justified by their present prosperity ho 

 would not venture to say, but it should be remembered that at the 

 present time their Honorary Fellows did not receive the Joiu-nal. 



A further discussion ensued, in which Mr. T. C. White, Mr. 

 James Smith, Dr. Braithwaite, and others took part, after which the 

 Chairman put the motion to the meeting and declared it to be carried 

 unanimously. 



Mr. Stephenson, the Treasurer, presented his accounts for the 

 year 1878 (see p. 218). 



Dr. Braithwaite moved that the accounts be received and adopted, 

 and printed and circulated as usual, which was seconded by Mr. 

 Glaisher, and carried unanimously. 



The List of Nominations for the Council was then read, and the 

 Chairman nominated Mr. A. D. Michael and Mr. T. C. White 

 Scrutineers. 



The Scrutineers having handed in their report of the result of the 

 ballot. 



The Chairman announced that the following Fellows (being those 

 whose names appeared in the list of nominations) were duly elected :— 



President—* Lionel S. Beale, Esq., M.B., F.E.S. 



Vice-Presidents — * Robert Braithwaite, Esq., M.D. ; Charles T. 

 Hudson, Esq., M.A., LL.D. ; * Henry J. Slack, Esq., F.G.S. ; and 

 Henry C. Sorby, Esq., F.E.S., Pres. G.S. 



Treasurer — John Ware Stephenson, Esq., F.R.A.S. 



Secretaries — Charles Stewart, Esq., M.K.C.S. ; Frank Crisp, Esq., 

 LL.B., B.A. 



Twelve other Members of Council — John Badcock, Esq. ; William 

 A. Bevington, Esq. ; Charles Jajues Fox, Esq. ; * James Glaisher, 

 Esq., F.R.S., F.R.A.S. ; *A. de Souza Guimaraens, Esq. ; William J. 

 Gray, Esq., M.D. ; * John E. Ingpen, Esq. ; Emanuel W. Jones, Esq., 

 F.R.A.S. ; * William T. Loy, Esq. ; John Matthews, Esq., M.D. ; 

 John Millar, Esq., L.R.C.P.E. ; and Thomas Palmer, Esq., B.Sc. 



* Have not held during the preceding year tlie ofSce for which they were 

 nominated. 



