262 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 



CH. XI.I 



Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 

 Synod Hall, Castle Terrace, 

 Edinburgh. 



Extract from the Minutes of Council of The 

 Royal Scottish Geographical Society, at a meeting 

 held on the 8th October 1908, Professor James Geikie, 

 D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., President of the Society, in the 

 Chair. 



On behalf of the Recommendations Committee the 

 President intimated that the Committee unanimously 

 proposed the award of the Society's Livingstone Medal 

 for 1908 to The Right Honourable Lord Avebury, 

 P.C, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., "for his valuable con- 

 tributions to Geographical Science." This award was 

 unanimously approved by the Council. 



At the end of November he spoke at the 

 Royal Society's dinner and in December presided 

 at a meeting of the Proportional Representation 

 Society in Caxton Hall where they had an 

 illustrative election. It was so far successful 

 that out of 21,000 voters there were only 17 

 spoilt papers. 



