XXV111 



Annual Report of the Council. 



Owing to the war, certain continental journals, subscribed 

 for by the Society, have not been received. The exchange of 

 publications with many Societies is also necessarily interrupted. 



At the Society's invitation, Dr. Julius Mac Leod, Professor 

 of Botany in the University of Ghent, will deliver a special 

 lecture before the Society on May 4th. The title of the lecture 

 will be " The Place of Science in History." 



The Annual Dinner will not take place this year. 



The Treasurer has been nominated to repiesent the Society 

 on the " Faunal Survey of Lancashire and Cheshire " 

 Committee. 



The Special Library Committee, as a result of a series of 

 meetings, reported : — (a) that a number of volumes, of little 

 value, in the Society's library should be disposed of; (o) that, 

 on examination, the scientific apparatus in the Society's 

 possession was found to include many valuable pieces of which 

 the history appears to be unknown. 



They recommended: — 



The preparation of a catalogue of the non-serial 

 publications in the Society's library ; the disposal 

 of such volumes as appear to be of no value to the 

 Society ; the preparation of a card-catalogue of the 

 pieces of scientific apparatus, portraits, busts, etc., 

 in the Society's possession ; the rejection of such 

 pieces of apparatus as are neither of material nor 

 historic value ; and the expenditure of a small 

 sum of money on various matters arising out of 

 the above recommendations. 



The recommendations were adopted by the Council. 



