REPORT of the COUNCIL. 
Your Council has great pleasure in being able to report 
to you that the session 1888-9 has been in every way 
fully as successful as the two preceding ones. 
There have, as usual, been eight Ordinary Meetings at 
University College, and a Field Meeting at Hilbre Island. 
The attendance at the meetings has been good, and the 
interest taken by the members in the work of the Society 
seems In no way to be diminishing. The number of 
communications has greatly increased, being half as many 
again as last year, and they have extended also over if 
possible a still wider area of Biology. 
During the session the Council recommended the 
appointment of an honorary librarian, and Dr. Hanitsch 
was accordingly elected to fill the post and to occupy a 
seat upon the Council. The librarian has been assiduous 
in his attention to work, and has arranged an exchange of 
publications with thirty-eight societies of repute, thus 
establishing our Society as a recognized centre of biological 
research not only in this country but on the continent 
of Kurope and in America, and at the same time laying 
the foundations of a good library. A suitable bookcase 
has been purchased, and it now contains 364 volumes and 
pamphlets. 
During the year the Society has added the names of 
the following eminent biologists to its list of Honorary 
Members :— 
Dr. Anton Fritsch, Professor of the University and Director 
of the Museum, Prague. 




