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ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Council nominate for election the following gentlemen to 

 act mth the Very Rev. the Dean of Canterbury, as Trustees: — 



Arthur W. Sutton Esq., F.L.S. J.P. (Hon. Trcas.). 

 Alfred "William Oke, Esq., B.A., LL.M. 



The Council have accepted the resignation of Mr. E. Walter 

 Maunder, E.K.A.S., as Secretary and Editor of the Journal, 

 Mr. Maunder having been recalled to his former post in 

 Greenwich Observatory in consequence of the War. The 

 Council have decided to divide the duties hitherto fulfilled by 

 the Secretary between three honorary officials — an Editor, a 

 Secretary for General Purposes, and a Lecture Secretary. They 

 nominate Dr. J. W. Thirtle, Mr. E. J. Sewell, and Mr. E. 

 Walter Maunder to the three offices respectively. 



7. Obituary. 



The Council regret to announce the death of David Howard, 

 Esq., D.L., J.P., F.C.S., Vice-President and Trustee, and of the 

 following Members and Associates : — 



The Eev. Arthur I. Bkkett, the Rev. Canon G. H. Butt, B.A., Major- 

 General E. Davidson Smith, William J. Canter, Esq., Andrew F. Derr, 

 Esq., the Rev. Arthur T. Field, the Rev. R. V. Faithfull Da^aes, Sir 

 Sandford Fleming, K.C.M.G., Admiral C. E. Gissing, R.N., George N. 

 Hooper, Esq., the Rev. R. C. Kirkpatriek, M.A., the Rev. W. S. Lach- 

 Szwma, M.A., Josiah Mullens, Esq., the Rev. Dr. T. Oliver, Mrs. Pringle 

 of Torwoodlee, the Rev. .J. J. Priestley, Major-General C. G. Robinson,^ 

 Sir Alexander R. Simpson, M.D., the Rt. Hon. Lord Chief Justice S. J. 

 Way, LL.D., the Rev. James White, M.A. 



8. Xeiv Members ami Associates. 



The following are the names of new Members and Associates 

 elected up to the end of the year 1916 : — 



Members.— Sir T. F. Victor Buxton, Bart., J.P., the Rev. H. Parry 

 Thornton, M.A., Colonel J. E. Broadbent, C.B. 



Associates. — The Rev. Matthew B. Moorhouse, the Rev. P. Rose, the 

 Rev. Isaac Levinson, the Rev. J. W. Fairhurst, M.A., B.D., Benjamin 

 Akhurst, Esq., Miss K. M. Bond, the Rev. R. Wright Hay, W. J. Canter, 

 Esq., Mrs. A. E. Piesse, Sir Chas. T. Dyke Acland, Bt., F. T. Lewis, Esq., 

 the Rev. J. W. Hayes, Mrs. Katharine Tod, Miss M. K. Purcell, Miss C. 

 I. Crawford, Charles E. Miller, Esq., Mrs. H. J. R. Marston, Mrs. Annie 

 Trotter, Alfred Holness, Esq., Dr. P. Traer Harris, the Rev. W. S. Calde- 

 cott. Miss E. Mayfield. 



Missionary Associates. — The Rev. W. H. Murray Walton, the Rev 

 Walter Robbins, the Rev. G. B. Durrant, the Rev. George Parker. 



