Minutes of Proceedings. 409 



This being carried by 12 votes to 1, the Minutes were formally 

 confirmed. 



A ballot was opened for the election of President and Council. 

 Mr. Garstin and Dr, WooUcombe were appointed Scrutineers. 



A ballot was opened for the election of new Members and for the 

 election of Honorary Members of the Academy. 



Mr. C. J. Joly and Mr. C. Litton Falkiner were appointed 

 Scrutineers. 



The Secretary, in the absence of the Secretary of Council, read the 

 following : — 



Eepout of the CoTJNCii POE THE Yeae 1901-2. 



Since the presentation of the last Report the Academy has 

 received, through the Home Secretary, the King's thanks for the 

 Address of condolence on the death of the late Queen and of con- 

 gratulation on His Majesty's accession. The King has been pleased 

 graciously to accede to the request of the Academy that he should 

 assume the office of Patron held by his Eoyal Predecessors. 



The Academy was represented by Professor Bernard, Secretary of the 

 Academy, and Professor C. J. Joly, Royal Astronomer of Ireland, at the 

 Celebration, in June, 1901, of the Ninth Jubilee of the TJniversity of 

 Glasgow, and by the Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, Dr. Scharff, 

 at the International Congress of Zoology at Berlin in August, and the 

 President has, during the present week, attended the Jubilee Celebra- 

 tion of the Owens College, Manchester, as the representative of the 

 Academy. Invitations were also received for delegates to the pre- 

 sentation of medals to M. Berthelot at the Sorbonne on 24th of 

 November, and to M. Gaudry at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 Paris, on the 9th of the present month; but, as it was found impracti- 

 cable, at short notice, to send representatives, letters of congratulation 

 were substituted. 



The attention of the Council having been drawn to the recent 

 establishment of a " British Academy," for which a Charter is sought 

 from the King, and the matter having been referred by His Majesty 

 to a Committee of the Lords of the Council, it was thought 



[37*-] 



