ANNUAL MEETING. 



Wednesday, January 17th, 1923. 



Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., etc., Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 



Dr. S. A. Neave, one of the Secretaries, read the following 



Report of the Council. 



It is with great satisfaction that the Council is able to 

 report a steady and most satisfactory progress in all phases 

 of the Society's activities during the year under review. 



The highly satisfactory financial position will be explained 

 to you in detail by the Treasurer, to whom the thanks both 

 of the Council and of the Society as a whole are due for his 

 unremitting care of its interests. 



The losses in Fellows by death have again been heavy, the 

 number being 16, one less than last year, but there have 

 been only 15 resignations, as compared with 20, and an even 

 larger numbers of new Fellows, 54, as compared with 51, has 

 been elected. The Society now consists of 12 Honorary, 

 1 Special Life, and 688 Ordinary Fellows, making a total of 

 701, the largest number in its history. 



The Society's Transactions and Proceedings will be of about 

 the same bulk as last year, but are much more fully illustrated. 

 The volume of Transactions will consists of 594 pages, and 

 comprises 20 papers by the following authors : — 



C. P. Alexander; H. E. Andrewes; G. J. Arrow; G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker ; G. C. Champion; E. A. Cockayne, M.A., 

 M.D.,F.R.C.P.; H. Eltringham, M.A., D.Sc; E. Fleutiaux; 

 A. J. T. Janse ; H. Mace ; G. A. K. Marshall, C.M.G., D.Sc. ; 

 E. Meyrick, F.R.S.; M. E. Mosely; N. D. Riley; R. J. 

 TiLLYARD, M.A., D.Sc; B. P. Uvarov (2); J. Waterston, 

 D.Sc. (2) ; and C. L. Withycombe. Of these, 8 deal with 



