MINUTES OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 30tH AFKIL 1947. 19 
votes should retire in 1948 (when there are only two members of the 
Committee due to retire), or whether it was desired that the Com- 
mittee should investigate how best to overcome, by the fairest means, 
the irregularities occasioned by the War. The meeting expressed the 
latter wish. 
Nominations for election to the Committee were then called for 
under Rule 3 (f) and on the proposition of Mr Airy Shaw, seconded 
by Mr Nelmes, Mr S. M. Walters was nominated and his name was 
added to the Ballot Paper. Messrs Ash and Collenette were appointed 
scrutineers of the Ballot, and, by the wish of the meeting, the Chair- 
man announced the elected members of the Committee in alphabetical 
order as follows:- — Mr Airy Shaw, Dr Burges, Mr Milne-Redhead, Air 
Pugsley, Air Simpson and Aliss Vachell. 
Aliss Campbell, the Excursions Secretary, made a brief statement 
on points in connection with the Excursions Programme for 1947. 
The Chairman then gave a review of the work which had taken place 
during the year on ]dans for the development of the Society, and men- 
tioned points which had already been decided upon by the Committee, 
and others which were still under discussion. The recommendations of 
the Committee and the consequential changes in the Rules would, he 
said, be placed before a vSpecial General Aleeting to be called in the 
autumn. 
There being no other business, the meeting ended at 3.55 p.m. with 
the Chairman moving a vote of thanks to the Linnean Society for the 
use of their rooms for the meeting. 
