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Council'* jkjwrt fox 1919. 



TN presenting the Sixteenth Annual Report the Council has 

 pleasure in recording another year of continued activity and 

 usefulness. 



The number of members on the 30th September, 1919, was 

 514 against 458 on the same date last year. 



During the year 'General and other Meetings were held as 

 follows : — 



Annual Meeting. 

 Extraordinary General Meeting. 

 Presidential Address. 

 9 General Lectures. 

 63 Sectional do. and other Meetings. 

 4 General Excursions. 

 13 Sectional Excursions, 

 making a total of 92 Meetings and Excursions. 



One of the General Lectures was given by Mr. F. M. Edwards, 

 B.A., assistant in the department of Entomology, Natural History 

 Museum, on Mosquitoes and Malaria in England. 



Four were given by Mr. R. Y. Banks on the subject of the 

 War, being a further series in connection with the National War 

 Savings Association. 



Among the Sectional Lectures was a series of five given in 

 the Botanical Section by the Rev, C. O. S. Hatton, B.A., F.L.S., 

 on " Sagacity in Plants," also a series of eight Tutorial lectures 

 on Physical Geography and Geology by Mr. W. Munn Rankin, 

 M.Sc, B.Sc. 



The General Lectures were as follows, viz. : — 



1918. 



Nov. 2. — " The Island Homes, Manners and Customs of the Society- 

 Islanders of the South Pacific Ocean," by Mr. Jas. E. Liddiard, 

 F.E.G.S. 



Dec. 3. — " Women's Work in the War," by Mrs. Grace Curnock, read 

 by Mr. E. Y. Banks. 

 Dec. 4. — " Mosquitoes and Malaria in England," by Mr. I'. W. 

 Edwards, B.A. 



Dec. 13.— "The Island of Formosa," by Rev. W. Campbell, D.D., 

 F.E.G.S. 



Dec. 21. — Presidential Address by Field Marshal Lord Grenfell of 

 Kilvey, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., LL.D., F.E.S. Subject: "The Art of 

 Ancient Egypt." 



1919. 



Jan. 8. — " America at War," by Mr. George Dilnot, read by Mr. E. T. 

 Banks. 



Jan. 15. — ''War in Italy," by Mr. Anthor Given, read by Mr. E. Y. 

 Banks. 



