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rendered as Editor are worthily and indelibly recorded on the 
pages of eighteen annual volumes of the Journals of the Society. 
Careful that full justice should be done to the memory of 
their late Secretary, the Council are indebted to the appreciative 
pen of Mr. John Chalmers Morton, who, for immediate publi- 
cation in the Society's Journal, has written with every advan- 
tage of personal knowledge a very sympathetic Memoir. 
In consideration of the premature death of Mr. Jenkins, and 
the eminent services which he has rendered to the Society, the 
Council unanimously voted a sum equivalent to a year's salary 
to be invested for the benefit of his widow and children, and 
it was referred to the Finance Committee to carry out the 
details of investment. 
The Council having decided that the vacant office of Secre- 
tary and Editor should not be filled up immediately, Colonel 
Kingscote, Chairman of the Finance Committee, was requested 
to superintend all financial matters with the assistance of 
Mr. Gale, the Acting Secretary ; while Earl Cathcart, Chairman 
of the Journal Committee, consented to take charge of the 
editorial work, with such assistance as he might require; and 
Mr. Jacob Wilson, Honorary Director, undertook a general 
charge of the secretarial work of the Society, with the assistance 
of the Acting Secretary and an ample staff of clerks. 
To fill the vacant post of Editor and Secretary the Council 
have elected, from 106 candidates, Mr. Ernest Clarke, whose 
experience at the Local Government Board and as Assistant 
Secretary of the Stock Exchange, and whose other acquirements, 
appear to fit him eminently for that post. 
The actual routine business under the experienced direction 
of Mr. Gale, the Acting Secretary, has meanwhile been ably 
conducted by the permanent staflT. In the production^ of the 
current number of the Journal, the Chairman of the Journal 
Committee did not consider it necessary to seek any extraneous 
aid, being perfectly satisfied with the assistance rendered by 
Mr. Charlton, of the Society's office. 
The vacancy in the Council caused by the election of Mr. 
Wakefield, as a Vice-President, has been filled by the election 
of Mr. Percy E. Crutchley, of Sunninghill Park, Berkshire. 
The accounts for the year 1886 having been examined by the 
