Proceedings. iii 
In accordance with a notice given at the last meeting on 
December 12th, Mr. Baldock moved, and Mr. Roods seconded, a 
motion that in future the Committee of the Club should be 
styled the ‘‘Council,’’ and the various ‘‘ Sub-Committees ” 
should be styled the ‘ Committees.” This was unanimously 
carried. 
In accordance with a notice which appeared in the circular 
for this month, it was moved by the President, and seconded by 
Mr. Baldock, that a portion of the Club’s Library should be 
transferred to the Reference Library at the Town Hall, the 
President remarking that members of the Club, on satisfying 
the Librarian of their membership, would be allowed to take 
away. any of the books placed there, but that other people 
would only be allowed access to them at the Library. He also 
called attention to the board placed over the Museum cases at 
the Town Hall, stating that they belonged to the Club. The 
expense of the board has been defrayed by Mr. W. B. Banner- 
man, to whom a hearty vote of thanks was accorded. The 
President also gave notice that at the next meeting he should 
move that a Curator be appointed, to be ew-officio a member of 
the Council. 
The usual summary of the Proceedings and Meetings of the 
year has been prepared by the Editorial Committee, and follows 
the Address. 
The President’s Address. 
Lapirs AND GENTLEMEN, 
It has been usual on these occasions for the President to 
give a résumé of the work done by the Society in the past year. 
Though there may be a good deal to be said for this proceeding, 
yet it seems to me that it should be done in a Report from the 
Council, rather than in the Address of the President. 
If you must follow the lead of many other Societies, and 
insist on having an Address, a proceeding which I regard as 
most mistaken, then surely it would be better to leave your 
President to choose his text, and, rather than limit him to a 
réchauffé of our own proceedings, to allow him to hash up any other 
mental food that he can readily deal with. Moreover, you have 
all had the chance of attending the evening meetings, and, if 
you have not done so, it is not clear to me that it is the duty of 
a President to tell you all about them. 
A record of the proceedings of our sections should perhaps be 
given to you, especially as regards excursions; but I think that 
such record is secretarial and not presidential work. As a 
matter of fact, it is done by the sectional secretaries, and surely 
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