April igth, ipio.] PROCEEDINGS. xxiii 



Annual Report, together with the Statement of Accounts, be 

 adopted, and that they be printed in the Society's Proceedings^ 



Mr. H. E. ScHMiTZ, M.A., B.Sc, and Mr. Charles Leigh 

 were appointed Scrutineers of the balloting papers. 



The following members were elected officers of the Society 

 and members of the Council for the ensuing year. 



President: Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E. 



Vice-Presidents: Thoinias Thorp, F.R.A.S. ; Ernest 

 Rutherford, D.Sc, F.R.S. ; Arthur Schuster, Sc.D., Ph.D., 

 F.R.S. ; Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S. 



Secretaries: R. L. Taylor, F.C.S., F.I.C. ; George Hick- 

 ling, M.Sc. 



Treasurer: Arthur McDougall, B.Sc. 

 Librarian : C. L. Barnes, M.A. 



OtJier Members of t/ie Council : Ernest F. Lange, F.C.S., 

 M.IMech.E.; W. H. Todd ; Edmund Knecht, Ph.D.; William 

 Burton, M.A., F.C.S.; Sydney J. Hickson, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.; 

 Sir Thomas H. Holland, K.C.I.E., D.Sc, F.R.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 20th, 1910. 



Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the tables. 



Professor S. J. Hickson, D.Sc, F.R.S., exhibited a piece of 

 wood stained green by a fungus that he had found at Lamplugh, 

 in Cumberland. 



Mr. T. G. B. Osborn, B.Sc, said that the fungus was 

 Peziza Aeruginosa which is not infrequently to be found growing 

 as a saprophyte on dead oak wood. The wood thus stained was 

 formerly used in the manufacture of " Tonbridge ware." 



