xxxii Animal Report of tJie Council. 



i8th. The title of the lecture was "Crystalline Structure as 

 revealed by X-rays." Professor Bragg was the chief guest at the 

 Annual Dinner, held the same evening. 



The Committees appointed by the Council during the year 

 were as follows :— 



House and Finance. 

 The President. Professor F. E. Weiss. 



Mr. Francis Jones. Air. W. H. Todd. 



Mr. C. L. B.ARNES. Dr. H. 0. A. Hicki.ing. 



Mr. R. L. Taylor. 



Editorial. 



The President. Mr. R. F. Gwyther. 



Professor S. J. Hickson. Mr. R. L. Tavlou. 



Dr. H. G. A. HiCKLiNG. The Assistant Secretary. 



Wilde Endowment. 

 The President. Mr. W. H. Todd. 



Mr. Francis Jones. Mr. R. L. Taylor. 



Dr. H. G. A. Hickling. 



Special Library Petiodical Committee. 



The President. Professor F. E. Weiss. 



Professor S. J. Hickson. j\lr. C. L. Barnes. 



Professor W. W. Haldane Gee. Mr. R. F. Gwyther. 

 Mr. R. L. Tavi.or. Dr. H. G. A. Hickling. 



The Assistant Secretary. 



Professor Paul Ascherson, who died on March 6th, 1913, 

 was born in June, 1834. By his death the science of botany 

 has lost one of the leaders of the older school of workers in the 

 realm of floristics. Studying under such botanists as Alex. 

 Braun, Pringsheim and Caspary, Ascherson's early progress and 



