lxxxviii REPORT—1899. 
General Committee that the meeting of the General Committee be held 
in future at 4 p.m. on the first day of the Annual Meeting, instead of at 
1 p.m. as has heretofore been customary, and that the Organising Commit- 
tees of the Sections should meet at 2 p.m. on that day instead of at 11 a.m., 
and should, until the Sectional Officers are definitely appointed by the 
General Committee, exercise the functions of Sectional Committees, with 
power to add to their number. 
The Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee for the past 
year, together with the list of the Corresponding Societies and the titles 
of the more important papers, and especially those referring to Local 
Scientific Investigations, published by those societies during the year 
ending June 1, 1899, has been received. 
The Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. Francis 
Galton, Professor R. Meldola (Chairman), Dr. J. G. Garson, Sir J. Evans: 
Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. W. Whitaker, Mr. G. J. Symons, Professor T. G. 
Bonney, Mr. T. V. Holmes, Sir Cuthbert Peek, Mr. Horace T. Brown, 
Rev. J. O. Bevan, Professor W. W. Watts, and Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 
is hereby nominated for reappointment by the General Committee. 
The Council nominate the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, F.R.S., Chairman, 
and Mr. T. V. Holmes, Secretary, to the Conference of Delegates of 
Corresponding Societies to be held during the Meeting at Dover. 
The Council have received Reports from the General Treasurer during 
the past year, and his accounts from July 1, 1898, to June 30, 1899, 
which have been audited, are presented to the General Committee. 
In accordance with the regulations the retiring Members of the 
Council will be :— 
Boys, C. Vernon, Esq., F.R.S. Thompson, Professor S. P., F.R.S, 
Meldola, Professor R., F.B.S. Unwin, Professor W. C., F.R.S. 
Reynolds, Professor J. Emerson, M.D., 
F.RB.S. 
The Council recommend the re-election of the other ordinary Members 
of the Council, with the addition of the gentlemen whose names are dis- 
tinguished by an asterisk in the following list :— 
*Armstrong, Professor H. E., F.R.S. Marr, J. E., Esq., F.R.S. 
*Bonar, J., Esq., LL.D. Poulton, Professor E. B., F.R.S. 
Creak, Captain E. W., R.N., F.R.S. Preece, Sir W. H., K.C.B., F.R.S. 
Darwin, F., Esq., F.R.S. Price, L. L., Esq., M.A. 
Darwin, Major L., Sec. R.G.S. Shaw, W. N., Esq., F.R.S. 
Fremantle, The Hon. Sir C. W., K.C.B. Teall, J. J. H., Esq., F.R.S. 
Gaskell, Dr. W. H., F.R.S. Thiselton-Dyer, Sir W. T., K.C.M.G., 
Halliburton, Professor W. D., F.R.S. F.R.S. 
Harcourt, Professor L. F. Vernon, M.A. Thomson, Professor J. M., F.R.S. 
Herdman, Professor W. A., F.R.S. Tilden, Professor W. A., F.R.S. 
Keltie, J. Scott, Esq., LL.D. Tylor, Professor EH. B., F.R.S. 
*Lodge, Professor Oliver, F.R.S. White, Sir W. H., K.C.B., F.R.S. 
MacMahon, Major P. A., F.R.S. *Wolfe-Barry, Sir John, K,C.B., F.R.S, 
