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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
Mr. T. C. White moved that a cordial vote of thanks be given to the 
Secretaries and Officers of the Society for their services during the past 
year. Having had some experience in secretarial work of that kind, he 
could assure them that such a post was no sinecure, and no one without 
experience of it knew how much it involved. They had heard something 
as to the difficulties of the Treasurer in getting in subscriptions ; and the 
work the Editor had done in connection with the Journal was apparent 
to every one who received it, and indicated an amount of labour which 
certainly could be no joke. 
The motion having been seconded by Mr. T. D. Ersser, was put to the 
meeting by the President, and unanimously carried. He had great 
pleasure in offering this vote of thanks to their Officers, not simply on 
account of the amount of work which had been done, but for the way in 
which it was done, and for the time and talent which 4} ad been bestowed 
upon it. 
A vote of thanks to the Auditors and Scrutineers was proposed by 
Mr. Karop, seconded by Mr. C. F. Rousselet, and carried unanimously. 
Prof. Bell said, that as the only officer then present — his colleague 
having gone away, possibly from presentiment as to what was coming — it 
fell again to him to respond. He always found it difficult to return thanks 
for the extremely kind manner in which the Society received a proposal 
of this sort, which seemed to him to exceed the merits of the occasion. 
At the present moment he felt it more than usually difficult, as during 
the whole of that day, and the day before, he had been suffering from 
facial neuralgia, which, to use the words of the mover of the vote of 
thanks, was “ no joke.” He would therefore say no more than that he 
sincerely thanked them for their expressions of good will. 
New Fellows. — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows — 
Mr. Robert Thomson and Dr. James Leon Williams. 
