NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 69 
of the Council's Report. The motion was put to the Meeting and carried 
unanimously. 
An address was delivered by the President. 
Sir Sidney Saunders and Mr. E. Boscher were appointed scrutineers. 
The following Members of Council were elected for 1879 :--Henry 
Walter Bates, F.L.S., F.Z.S.; William L. Distant; Rev. A. E. Eaton, M.A.; 
Edward A. Fitch; Ferdinand Grut, F.LS8.; Raphael Meldola, F.C.S.; 
Edward Saunders, F’.L.S.; Frederick Smith; J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., F.Z.S.; 
Joseph W. Dunning, M.A., F.L.S.; Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., 
V.-P.R.S.; Samuel Stevens; James Wood-Mason, F'.G.S. 
The following officers were then elected :—President, Sir John Lubbock, 
Bart., M.P.; Treasurer, J. Jenner Weir; Librarian, F Grut; Secretaries, 
R. Meldola and W. L. Distant. 
Mr. H. T. Stainton proposed a vote of thanks to the President for his 
services during the past year, and moved that his address should be printed. 
The motion was seconded by Mr. M‘Lachlan, and carried unanimously. 
A vote of thanks to the other officers for their services was proposed 
by Mr. J. W. May, seconded by Mr. Pascoe, and carried unanimously. 
Messrs. Jenner Weir, Grut, Meldola, and Distant replied. 
The President returned thanks to the Auditors, on whose behalf 
Mr. Dunning replied, and the Meeting then adjourned to February 5th.— 
R. Mexpora, Hon. Secretary. 
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 
The Fenland Past and Present. By Samurn H. Miter, F.R.A.S., 
F.M.S., Medallist and Foreign Member of the Society of Arts 
and Sciences of Utrecht; and Sypnny B. J. Sxerrcuty, 
F.G.S., Her Majesty’s Geological Survey. Illustrated with 
Engravings, Maps and Diagrams. Wisbech: Leach & Son. 
London: Longmans. 1878. Royal 8vo. 
Now that in these days when “men run to and fro upon the 
earth, and knowledge is increased,” the aspect of few parts of 
England is not more or less known to our readers. A gloomier 
prospect is hardly to be viewed by a traveller than that which 
presents itself to the eyes of the ordinary passengers on certain 
portions of the Great Northern or Great Kastern Railways, where 
the line runs over the Fen Country. The ground is a dead level; 
the soil black; hedgerows, and still more the graceful elms which 
in so many parts of the kingdom embellish them, are wholly 
