476 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



December 13th, and the following eleven new Trustees were 

 then elected : — Right Hon. Lord Armstrong, Right Hon. 

 Viscount Ridley, Right Hon. Lord Joicey, Sir Hugh Bell, Bart., 

 Sir John D. Milburn, Bart., Lieut. -Col. C. H. E. Adamson, 

 Mr. Clive Cookson, Mr. G. E. Henderson, Mr. Edward Joicey, 

 Mr. H. N. Middleton, and Mr. J. H. B. Noble. The number 

 of Trustees has therefore now been restored to fifteen, the 

 original number, and also the highest limit permitted by the 

 rules. 



A change in the staff has taken place during the year. 

 Miss Conradi, who for nearly eighteen months had filled the 

 post of lady clerk and typist, was obliged to resign in order to 

 leave the district with her family. The post was a new one 

 when Miss Conradi entered upon it, and she deserved the 

 highest credit for the way in which she surmounted the initial 

 difficulties, and for her subsequent efficient discharge of the 

 duties connected with it. It was with much regret that the 

 Council received her resignation. Miss E. Welford has been 

 appointed to the vacancy, and is carrying on the work in a 

 thoroughly capable and systematic manner. 



During the year the Society has lost several prominent 

 members by death. The most widely known of these was 

 Canon Tristram, who had had a very long connexion with 

 the Field Club, and who is to be specially remembered as the 

 virtual founder of the Hancock Prize Competition. He was 

 distinguished as a naturalist-traveller, and had formed excellent 

 collections of the birds of some of the most interesting parts of 

 the world. The loss of two Vice-Presidents, Thomas Thomp- 

 son and John Daglish, has also to be recorded. Thomas 

 Thompson was one of the oldest members of the Society. He 

 was a typical countryside naturalist and a friend of John 

 Hancock. He was Hon. Treasurer of the Society for a 

 number of years, and was made a Vice-President when he 

 retired from that office. Few men have felt a closer attach- 

 ment to the Society and to the museum. John Daglish also 

 showed a warm and practical interest in the welfare of the 

 Society. In addition to taking his share, when health allowed 



