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Sherborn, who has undertaken to carry out the work on the lines 
laid down. This work will neeessarily take a considerable time to 
complete. 
A full account of the Proceedings at the Special General Meeting 
held on March 27th, 1901, to consider the state of the Society’s 
Museum, has been published at pages xcii—xcili of the last volume 
of the Quarterly Journal. After that meeting the Rev. J. F. 
Blake made an offer to undertake, without any remuneration, the 
task of editing and preparing for publication a catalogue of the 
type- and other important specimens in the Society’s Museum, based 
on Mr. ©. Davies Sherborn’s manuscript catalogue. This offer was 
accepted by the Council, and on this arduous work the Rev. J. F. 
Blake has been now engaged for many months past. It is esti- 
mated that the cost of printing and publishing this Catalogue will 
amount to £100, an item which is accordingly included in the 
Estimates for the current year. The Council recommend that no 
further action be taken with regard to the Museum, till this Cata- 
logue has been placed in the hands of the Fellows. . 
On April 22nd, the Rev. J. F. Blake addressed a communication 
to the Council referring to the ‘ Suggestions for Certain Improve- 
ments, 1901,’ which he had caused to be printed and issued to the 
Feilows generally. The matters dealt with in the pamphlet have 
been for some time under the consideration of the Council, and 
certain of them have been reserved for future deliberation. 
One of the chief points dealt with was the present method of 
election of the Council and the Officers. The Council desire to 
point out that, at the time of the revision of the Bye-Laws in 1889, 
the draft of the Bye- Laws as revised was submitted to Counsel and 
approved by him; but, without laying great stress on this point, 
’ they think that before making avy radical change in the method of 
balloting, the following modifications of the usual practice should 
be tried :— 
(2) Fellows should be invited to send in to the Secretaries before 
January lst in each year the names of any person or persons whom they 
may desire to see placed on the Council, and the Council should carefully 
consider all such names in making their recommendations to the Fellows at 
the Annual General Meeting. 
(6) That the names of those recommended for retirement by the 
Council be printed in italics at the foot of the first column in the existing 
form. 
(c) That the names of those recommended for election by the Council 
be printed in italics at the foot of the second column in the existing form. 
The proposals 6 and ¢ will be found embodied in the Balloting- 
Lists sent out for the present Annual General Meeting. 
With regard to some of the other matters raised in the Rev. J. F. 
Blake’s pamphlet, 
(dZ) The Council do not recommend that questions should be allowed to 
be put to the Secretaries at Ordinary General Meetings. It is always 
open to any Fellow to address the Secretaries in writing on any point 
concerning the Society, and due attention is always given tu such commu- 
nications. 
