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Jlmuml JEeeting, X918 



HE Fifteenth Annual General Meeting was held in the 



Society's Room in the Municipal College on Saturday, 

 October 26th. Mr. W. Munn Rankin, M.Sc, B.Sc, Chairman 

 of the Council, presided. The Minutes of the previous Annual 

 Meeting having been read and passed, the CouncTs Report and 

 the Hon. Treasurer's statement of accounts were read. The 

 latter showed receipts £309 7s. lid., and payments £226 Is., 

 leaving a balance of £83 6s. lid. 



The Council's Report indicated that in the past year the Society 

 had continued its career of activity and usefulness. The number 

 of Members on September 30th was 458, as compared with 394 

 on the same date last year. Four lectures on the subject of the 

 war were given under the auspices of the National War Savings 

 Committee, for which a small charge was made to non-members, 

 leaving a profit of £3 3s., which was invested in War Savings 

 Certificates. A branch of the local War Savings Association 

 has been formed, to be called "The Bournemouth Natural 

 Science War Savings Association." The amount invested up to 

 October 24th was £3,163 15s. 



A sub-committee, of which Mr. Geo. Grace, B.Sc, 

 A.R.C.Sc, is Chairman, has been appointed to effect improve- 

 ments in the administration of the library. 



On June 8th a Reunion of this Society and the Literature 

 and Art Association was held in the Municipal College, when 

 selections from the Society's collections and many other objects 

 of interest lent for the occasion were adequately displayed. It 

 was very successful, and was attended by a large number of 

 Members. 



Allusion was made in the report to a munificent bequest to 

 the Society, under the will of the late Mr. G. R. MacDougall, of 

 £2,000, for the purposes of a Museum, including the site. It 

 is. at present subject to the life interest of a beneficiary, but it 

 will eventually enable a better display to be made of the Society's 

 numerous collections. 



The Report and accounts were approved and adopted. 



The Chairmen of the various sections gave their reports, 

 and Mr. Grace read the report cf the Library Committee. 



A vote of thanks to the retiring President, Sir Jethro J. H. 

 Teall, M.A., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., was proposed by the Chair- 

 man, seconded by Mr. Grace, and carried. 



Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., J. P., etc., proposed the elec- 

 tion of Field Marshal Lord Grenfell, of Kilvev, G.C.B., 

 G.C.M.G., LL.D., F.S.A., as President of the Society for the 

 year 1018-19. He spoke of his services to the Country as a 



