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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 

 APRIL 7, 1908. 



A Meeting of the Society for the transaction of ordinary 

 business, and the reconsideration of the Balance-sheet sub- 

 mitted with the Annual Report for 1907, was held at the 

 Museum on Wednesday evening, April 7, 1908. 



Mr. T. Stephens, M.A., F.G.S., in the chair. 



Mrs. C. S. Agnew, Messrs. Hugh Armstrong, F.R.C.S., W. 

 A. Harvey, M.B., Lyndhurst F. Giblin, B.A., A. W. Courtney 

 Pratt, W. Minchin Nicholls, and A. R. Reid were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



In reference to the question of the reconsideration oS the 

 Balance-sheet for 1907, the Chairman announced that Mr. 

 Bernard Shaw, their recently-appointed Honorary Treasurer, 

 had taken a great deal of trouble in going through the accounts 

 of the Society for the last four years, and would now furnish 

 any information that was required on the subject. 



Mr. Shaw laid on the table printed accounts showing the 

 receipts and expenditure for the years 1904 to 1907. The 

 Balance-sheet for 1907 had been amended by the transposition 

 of figures. The error in the accounts of the Morton Allport 

 Memorial Fund was connected with the purchase of a valuable 

 work for th~ Memorial Library when the funds in hand were 

 insufficient for the purpose, and the deficiency was made good 

 by a loan from the General Funds of the Society. There should 

 have been some explanatory note to show that the amount of 

 this loan was a debit balance against the Memorial Fund, 

 which would be repaid to the Society as soon as the next in- 

 stalment of interest was received. The Balance-sheets for 1904- 

 5-6 had now been compiled, and, with the revised Balance- 

 sheet for 1907, had been examined by the Auditor and certified 

 as correct. 



Mr. A. J. Taylor thought the Society might now congratu- 

 late itself on the fact that it had a business-like statement put 

 forward, and he claimed that the course he took at the previous 

 meeting, in moving that further consideration of the Balance- 

 sheet be postponed, was fully justified by the clear statement 

 of accounts which was now before them. Mr. Bernard Shaw 

 had taken a vast amount of trouble in going through the 

 accounts for the years which had been mentioned. He (Mr. 

 Taylor) did not at the previous meeting for a moment dream 

 of casting any reflection on the Council or the late Secretary. 



