WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8rzx. 
Ennual General Meeting. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 81x, 1892. 
The Council congratulates the Society not only on the large 
access of new members to it in the past year, but also on the 
increased activity which has characterized its proceedings. 
Mention was made in the last Annual Report of a scheme which 
the Council had sanctioned for the formation of Sections or 
Sectional Committees for the more effective study of different 
subjects. The work of some of these will be dealt with more at 
large in the reports of their several secretaries; it may be 
mentioned, however, that the Microscopical Section has held 
seven meetings, which have been well attended, and the Council 
feels that the admirable series of demonstrations which Mr. D. 
E. Caush has given on different methods of cutting sections of 
animal tissues have been of the greatest value to the Society. 
The Botanical Section will be shortly placed on a better footing 
and with a more complete sectional organization. The Meteorol- 
ogical results furnished us by Dr. Newsholme, in which the 
rainfall and sunshine at Brighton are compared with neighbour- 
ing stations, cannot fail to be of present interest and a record of 
permanent value. But the great success of the year has been, with- 
out doubt, the institution of a Photographic Section, no less than 
thirty-five members having joined the Society or been proposed for 
membership within the last three months mainly with the object 
of attending the meetings of this Section. The Council gratefully 
acknowledges the efficient aid which the late Chairman of this 
Section (Mr. D. E. Caush), and the present Secretary (Mr. 
Walter Harrison), have rendered in organizing it. The acquisi- 
tion of an electric lantern, together with a constant supply of 
electricity to the room in which we meet, permitting of its use 
at all times, has been not only a necessity of the Photographic 
Section, but a great help to the illustration of papers, &c., at our 
ordinary meetings. 
