PROCEEDINGS FOR 1899 VII 



Life, with vivid illustrations from his own special plates. Similar lec- 

 tures and readings have heretofore attracted large audiences, and created 

 a popular interest in the general work of the society. 



7. Bibliography. 



The Editor of the Transactions proposes in the autumn of this year 

 to go on with the Bibliography of the Fellows of the society. So far 

 membei-s have sent in very few additions to the lists published in volume 

 XII of the old series. All that is necessary for them to do is to refer to 

 that volume and follow the plan therein set forth. All manuscript 

 should be at least legibly written, when it cannot be typewritten. If 

 this plan is not followed the work of the editor is more than doubled. 

 When possible it would ensure accuracy if each author would take the 

 trouble to write out his bibliography in full to the latest possible date. 

 Authors can add other titles when the proofs are received — say in the 

 month of January next. In this way the work will be complete to the 

 close of the present year. 



8. Proposed Addition to the Fellowships of the Society. 



At the i-equest of the Honorary Secretaiy, the Council place before 

 the society the following communication which he has addressed to us 

 all on a matter aft'ecting the usefulness of the whole body : 



'* Gentlemen, 



" On several occasions for two or three years, in the course of con- 

 versation with Fellows of the society and persons outside of its ranks, it 

 has been suggested to me that the present time seems opportune for 

 increasing the number of members in each section, and probably in this 

 way giving an additional stimulus to the work of the society without 

 in the least degree lowering that basis of qualification on which our mem- 

 bership has always rested. The society commenced with a total mem- 

 bership of eighty, or twenty in each section — subsequently increased to 

 one hundred, and twenty-five, respectively. The third section has never 

 filled up its ranks to the allotted number, and the society has so far 

 never exceeded a membership of ninety Fellows on that account and by 

 reason unhappily of one or more deaths every year. Seventeen years 

 have passed since the foundation of the society by the Marquess of Lome 

 with a limited membership, but during that period the number of persons 

 who are actively engaged in science and literature has steadily increased, 

 as a consequence not only of the additions made from time to time to the 

 staff of several universities, but also of the greater interest generally 

 taken in scientific and literary studies. Under such circumstances the 

 question arises, whether the society should not now be enlarged in order 



