﻿Ixxix 
  

  

  ANNUAL 
  MEETING. 
  

   Wednesday, 
  January 
  21st, 
  1920. 
  

  

  Comm. 
  J. 
  J. 
  Walker, 
  M.A., 
  R.N., 
  F.L.S., 
  President, 
  in 
  

   the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  The 
  Rev. 
  George 
  Wheeler, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  Secretaries, 
  read 
  

   the 
  following 
  

  

  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Council. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  past 
  year 
  tlie 
  Society 
  has 
  sustained 
  an 
  un- 
  

   usual 
  number 
  of 
  losses 
  by 
  death, 
  fifteen 
  in 
  all, 
  two 
  being 
  

   those 
  of 
  former 
  Presidents, 
  Dr. 
  F. 
  Du 
  Cane 
  Godman 
  and 
  

   Lord 
  Walsingham; 
  five 
  Fellows 
  also 
  have 
  resigned, 
  and 
  

   eight 
  have 
  been 
  -removed 
  for 
  non-jjayment 
  of 
  subscriptions. 
  

   Our 
  total 
  losses 
  therefore 
  amount 
  to 
  twenty-eight, 
  but 
  in 
  

   spite 
  of 
  this 
  fact 
  our 
  numbers 
  arc 
  at 
  this 
  moment 
  at 
  the 
  

   highest 
  point 
  they 
  have 
  ever 
  reached, 
  no 
  less 
  than 
  fifty- 
  

   seven 
  new 
  Fellows 
  having 
  been 
  elected 
  since 
  the 
  last 
  Annual 
  

   Meeting. 
  The 
  Society 
  now 
  consists 
  of 
  twelve 
  Honorary 
  

   Fellows, 
  two 
  Special 
  Life 
  Fellows, 
  six 
  hundred 
  and 
  eighteen 
  

   Ordinary 
  Fellows, 
  making 
  a 
  total 
  of 
  six 
  hundred 
  and 
  thirty-two. 
  

  

  The 
  Vacancy 
  among 
  the 
  Trustees 
  of 
  the 
  Society,' 
  caused 
  

   by 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Godman, 
  was 
  filled 
  by 
  the 
  appointment 
  

   of 
  the 
  Honble. 
  N. 
  Charles 
  Rothschild. 
  

  

  The 
  Council 
  has 
  voted 
  a 
  donation 
  of 
  five 
  guineas 
  towards 
  

   the 
  Godman 
  Memorial 
  in 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  Museum. 
  

  

  The 
  continued 
  rise 
  in 
  the 
  price 
  of 
  paper 
  and 
  even 
  more 
  the 
  

   large 
  increase 
  in 
  the 
  cost 
  of 
  labour 
  have 
  made 
  it 
  impossible 
  

   for 
  the 
  Business 
  Committee 
  to 
  sanction 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  

   quite 
  so 
  large 
  a 
  body 
  of 
  matter 
  as 
  has 
  been 
  customary 
  for 
  

   some 
  years 
  past; 
  the 
  Transactions, 
  however, 
  contain 
  467 
  

   pages 
  and 
  consist 
  of 
  nineteen 
  papers 
  by 
  the 
  following 
  authors 
  : 
  — 
  

   H. 
  E. 
  Andrewes 
  (2); 
  Prof. 
  J. 
  Chester 
  Bradley, 
  M.S., 
  

   Ph.D. 
  ; 
  T. 
  A. 
  Chapman, 
  M.D., 
  F.R.S., 
  etc. 
  (3) 
  ; 
  G. 
  Chester 
  

  

  