ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
MONDAY, MAY 9ru, 1910. 
Tue Ricut Hoy. Tue Eart or HAtssury, F.R.S. (PRESIDENT), 
IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the preceding Annual General Meeting were read 
and confirmed. 
An Address to His Majesty King George V. was moved from the 
Chair and adopted, all present standing. 
The Annual Report was presented and adopted. 
The following Members of the Council were elected :— 
Rev. Chancellor J. J. Lias, M.A.* 
Rev. H. J. R. Marston, M.A. 
E. W. Maunder, Esq., F.R.A.S. 
Theo. G. Pinches, Esq., LL.D., M.R.A.S.* 
Ven. Archdeacon Beresford Potter, M.A. 
Ven. Archdeacon W. M. Sinclair, M.A., D.D.* 
tev. J. H. Skrine, M.A. 
E. J. Sewell, Esq. 
J. W. Thirtle, Esq.,.LL.D., M.R.A.S. 
The Annual Address was then delivered. 
ADDRESS ON THE RETURN OF HALLEY’S COMET 
IN 1910. 
By A. C. D. CRoMMELIN, Esq., D.Sc., F.R.A.S. 
We have the privilege this year of welcoming a rare visitor, 
that few indeed of those now living have seen before, 
or can expect to see again. Its visits occur at intervals of 
three-quarters of a century, or more exactly it makes thirteen 
visits in 1,000 years. The idea of welcoming a comet is one 
that would have sounded strange to our ancestors, who regarded 
these visitors with terror as most ill-omened and precursors of 
plague, famine, and war. Their terror was not wholly unrea- 
sonable, for even from our modern standpoint, comets remain 
* Retiring Members re-elected. 
