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In accordance with the resolutions adopted at a General 

 Meeting held on April 12th, the Officers and Council were 

 balloted for en bloc, and Mr. Charles Oldham and Mr. Charles 

 Leigh were appointed Scrutineers of the balloting papers. 



The following members were elected officers of the Society 

 and members of the Council for the ensuing year : — 



President: W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. 



Vice-Presidents: Sir William H. Bajley; H. B. Dixon, 

 M.A., F.R.S. ; Charles Bailey, M.Sc, F.L.S. ; Horace 

 Lamb, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. 



Secretaries: Fpancis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.C.S. ; 

 Charles H. Lees, D.Sc. 



Treasurer : Arthur McDougall, B.Sc, 



Librarian: W. E, Hoyle, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 



Other Members of the Council: Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S. 

 F. E. Weiss, D.Sc, F.L.S. ; C E. Stromeyer, M.Inst.CE. 

 Frank Southern, B.Sc; William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.C.S. 

 Thomas Thorp, F.R.A.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 26th, 1904. 



Professor W, Boyd Dawkins, D.Sc, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. The following were among the recent 

 accessions to the Society's Library : — " De Tjandi Mendoet voor 

 ■de Restauratie" door B. Kersjes en C. den Hamer (fol., Batavia, 

 1903), and ^^ De Java-oorlog van j82^-jo"...T)&s:(1q Deel, door 

 P. J. F. Louw {4to., Batavia, 1904), presented by the Bataviaasch 

 •Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen ; " A Dream of 

 Worlds beyond us" by A. Welcker (8vo., San Francisco, 1903), 

 presented by the author ; " Report of the Select Committee on 

 Ventilation" (8vo., London, 1904); '■^ Flora Capensis" vol. iv. 



