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nominated for election^ and tliey confidently recommend 

 him to yonr consideration. 



" Mr. J. Lewis Bonliote, who has been the Honorary 

 Secretary and Treasurer of the Union for six years, has 

 also found it necessary to resign his office, as he is leaving 

 England for a post abroad. The Committee wish to 

 express their gratitude to Mr. Bonhote for his untiring 

 exertions on behalf of the Union during his tenure of 

 office. 



"To replace Mr. Bonhote the Committee recommend for 

 election Mr. E. C. Stuart l?aker, who is known to most of 

 the members, and who has consented, subject to election, 

 to undertake the duties of Honorary Secretary and 

 Treasurer." 



The statement of accounts for the year 1912, previously 

 circulated to the members, was submitted and approved, 

 and a vote of thanks was accorded to the Auditor, Mr. D. 

 Seth-Smith. 



The Meeting then proceeded to elect the Officers for the 

 ensuing year, and it was announced that Col. R. G. Ward- 

 law-Ramsay had been elected President and Mr. E. C. 

 Stuart Baker Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, also that 

 Mr. Henry Munt had been elected a member of the Com- 

 mittee in the place of Mr. Edward Bidwell, who retired by 

 rotation. 



The following 21 candidates for Ordinary Membership of 

 the Union were then balloted for and duly elected : — George 

 K. Baynes ; George G. Blackwood; Nugent Chaplin; 

 James P. Cook ; Francis Cowan ; Capt. John A. Doig ; 

 James Drummond ; Linnaeus Greening, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; 

 Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, F.Z.S. ; Capt. Ernest C. Hardy, 

 R.N. ; John Hewitt, M.A. ; Tom Iredale; Godfrey C. 

 Lambert; Kenneth F. Meiklejohn; John H. Owen; 

 Reginald N.Rogers; Henry M. Stanford ; John K. Stan- 

 ford; Edward H. Tuckwell, F.Z.S.; Capt. Francis E. W. 

 Venning ; Hugh Whistler. 



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