REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
To December 31st, 1914. 
DURING the last year there has been a nett decrease in 
membership of two. 
Ord. Members. Associate Members. Total. 
1912 ... 85 39 — 124 
1913 ... 103 49 — 152 
1914 ... 101 49 — 150 
In addition there are 12 lion, members and also about 10 
student members of sections only, making a grand total of 172. 
During the year the Annual Report and Proceedings were 
published, representing Series IV, Vol. IV, Part I, and extending 
over 103 pages, and including 4 plates. This volume was taken 
to represent the Jubilee Volume of the Proceedings. 
The following meetings were held during the year : — 
Jan. 22nd, 1 9 14. — Annual Meeting. Presidential address by Miss 
I. M. Roper, entitled "Historical Associations 
of Plants." Specimens were exhibited bv 
Mr. Kemp (Hill's Herbal of 1812), Mr. 
Griffith (Life History of Australian Butter- 
flies), Mr. Batchelor (Euschemon Raffiesise), 
and Mr. White (Monograph on Symphytum 
by C. Bucknall). 
Feb. 5th, 1914.— Mr. C. Hunter: "Peat." Exhibits: Dr. 
Darbishire demonstrated the splitting of 
Penyrorsedd roofing slate. Mr. Davies 
exhibited a monocotyledonous flower, which 
had come from the Cape in cold storage. Mr. 
Kemp presented to the Society copies of 
Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry, 1796, and 
Decandolle and Sprengel, Elements of 
the Philosophy of Plants, 1821. 
Mar. $th, 1914. — Mr. C. T. Gimingham : Henri Fabre, 
Entomologist and Poet." Exhibits: Dr. 
Darbishire, The Ultramicroscope ; Mr. White, 
Utricularia neglecta and major from Tadham 
Moor, and Calamagrostis epigaeos growing on 
peat ; Mr. Griffiths, Specimens of Wood 
Argus Butterfly from Algeria ; Miss Lucas, a 
Living Toad. 
