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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Friday, 14th February, 1913. 



R. BuLLEN Newton, F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. H. C. Fulton and Mr. A. W. Oke, LL.M., F.L.S., were 

 appointed scrutineers. 



The Secretary announced that at the last Ordinary Meeting, 

 tlirough an oversight on liis part, no Auditors had been appointed, 

 aiul that in the interval he had consulted the members of the Council, 

 wlio decided that tlie two members who acted in that capacity the 

 previous year, viz. Dr. Henry Woodward, F.ll.S., and Mr. G. C. 

 llobson, B.A., should again be asked to officiate, and that the Annual 

 Meeting should be asked to confirm this course. This was carried 

 unanimously. 



The following report was read : — 



" Your Council, in presenting their twentieth Annual Report, find 

 it a source of great satisfaction to be able to refer to the useful — and 

 in some cases voluminous — papers published through the usual 

 channel of tlie Society's ' Proceedings ', details of which will be found 

 below. 



" It is with deep regret tliat they have to record the loss by death 

 of two prominent members, the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen and 

 Dr. J. C. Cox, and also of two others, Mr. D. D. Baldwin and 

 Mons. A. Bonnet, while resignation and other causes are responsible 

 for the removal from the roll of five more names. 



" During the year eleven new members have been elected, so that 

 the membership of the Society on December 31st, 1912, stood as 

 follows : — 



Ordinary members ....... 71 



Corresponding members ...... 91 



Total . . 162 



" The financial condition of the Society is essentialh' the same as 

 last year. The current account shows a balance of £4 10s. \ld. The 

 special fund has still £12 7s. standing to its credit, while the Society 

 still holds the sum of £50 invested in Metropolitan 2A per cent 

 stock. For its improved financial condition the Society is indebted 

 to some members who made generous contributions to its funds. 



"During the year 1912 three parts of the 'Proceedings' have 

 been published as usual, forming the first half of Vol. X. Thej' 

 comprise 261 pages, 13 plates, and 36 text-figures. 



"The following gentlemen have very kindly contributed towards 

 the cost of illustrations or have supplied drawings or photographs for 

 the plates or text-figures : Dr. R. Arnold, H. H. Bloomer, H. Hannibal, 

 J. C. Melvill, R. B. Newton, H. B. Preston, M. M. Schepman, 

 E. A. Smith, G. B. Sowerby, A. W. Stelfox, and E. W. Vredenburg. 

 ' Without such liberal help it would not be possible so fully to illus- 

 trate the ' Proceedings '. 



