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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Fkidai', loTir February, 1914. 



The Rev. A. H. Cooke, M.A., D.Sc, F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



'Mr. F. \V. lleador ami Mr. F. H. Slkos were appointed scrutineers. 

 The following report was read : — 



"Your Council, in presenting their twenty-first Annual lleport, 

 refer with pleasure to the fact tluit the Society has now attained its 

 majority, and may look back with extreme satisfaction on the amount 

 of useful work accomplished during the period of its existence and 

 published in the ' Proceedings ' of the Society. 



" The papers printed during the preceding year, details of which 

 are given below, have maintained their ixsual standard of excellence. 



" It is with great regret your Council liave to record the loss by 

 death of two members, Mr. 11. Bruce Foote, F.G.S., and Mr. W. Moss, 

 while, owing to resignation and other causes, four more names have 

 been removed from the Society's roll. 



" During tiie j'ear nine new members have been elected, so that 

 the membership of the Society on December 31st, 1913, stood as 

 follows : — 



Ordinary members ....... 71 



Corresponding members ...... 94 



Total . . 165 



"As regards finance, the position of the Society shows an improve- 

 ment on last year's figures. The current account shows a balance of 

 £22 Os. 9d., w^hile the special fund has £20 standing to its credit, 

 one composition fee of £5 5s. having been added and £2 8.?. 

 transferred from current account. The Society, moreover, still holds 

 the sum of £50 invested in Metropolitan 2.V per cent stock. 



" Three parts of the ' Proceedings ', forming the last half of Vol. X, 

 have been issued during the year 1913. They consist of 134 pages 

 of text, illustrated witli 5 plates and 30 text-figures. A portrait of 

 liieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, President of the Society 1898-9, 

 was issued with Part V as a frontispiece to the volume. 



" The following authors have very kindly contributed towards the 

 cost of illustrations, or have furnished drawings or photographs for 

 the plates or text-figures: C. II. Boettger, Rev. A. H. Cooke, 

 T. Iredale, A. J". Jukes-Browne, Marquis de Monterosato, H. B. 

 Preston, G. C. Itobson, and H. Suter. 



" The thanks of the Society are again especially due to the Council 

 of the Linnean Society for permitting the meetings to be held in 

 Burlington House as in previous years." 



On the motion of Mr. F. W. Reader, seconded by Mr. E. A. Smith, 

 the above was adopted as the Annual Report of the Society. 



The following were elected Officers and Council for the vear 1914: — 

 Freside?iL—\icy. A. H. Cooke, U.X., D.Sc, F.Z.S. 



