ANNUAL MEETING. 



Wednesday, January 19th, 1921. 



Commander James J. Walker, M.A.,R.N., F.L.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



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

 following 



Report of the Council. 



The Session now concluding has been one of various and 

 important changes, which have, however, left the Society in 

 a very satisfactory position. Although we have had an 

 unusual number of losses, 37 in all, occasioned by the death 

 of 13 Fellows, the resignation of 19, and the removal of 5 for 

 non-payment of subscriptions, yet these losses have been far 

 more than counterbalanced by the unprecedented number of 

 those who have this year joined our ranks, no less than 72 

 Fellows having been elected during the year 1920. The 

 Society now consists, so far as can be ascertained, of 12 Honor- 

 ary, 2 Special Life Fellows, and 656 Ordinary Fellows making 

 a total of 670. It is still, however, unfortunately, uncertain 

 whether the Hon. Fellow A. P. Semenoff Thian-Shanski 

 has been assassinated in Russia. 



The vacancy in the Trusteeship caused by the death of 

 Lord Walsingham has been filled by the appointment of 



Prof. POULTON. 



Owing to the greatly increased and continually increasing 

 cost of publication, the Transactions of the Society are again 

 of smaller proportions than in recent years ; they consist, 

 however, of 418 pages, and contain 18 papers by the following 

 authors : — 



G. J. Arrow, F.Z.S. ; Surgeon-Commander Malcolm 

 Cameron, M.B., R.N. (2); G. D. H. Carpenter, M.B.E., 

 D.M., etc.; T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.R.S., etc. (2); L. D. 

 Clears; J. E. Collin, F.Z.S. ; G. C. Crampton, Ph.D. (2); 



