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The President said that their next business would be to elect Officers 
and Council for the ensuing year, and for this purpose lie appointed 
Mr. J. M. Allen and Mr. F. W. Hcmbrey to act as Scrutineers on the 
occasion, and the ballot was at once proceeded with. 
The Scrutineers having handed in their Report, 
The President declared that the whole of the gentlemen whose names 
had been printed upon the balloting papers were duly elected to serve as 
Officers and Council during 1894 as under : — 
President — Albert D. Michael, Esq., F.L.S. 
Vice-Presidents — *Prof. Lionel S. Beale, M.B., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.; 
Robert Braith waite, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S. ; Frank Crisp, Esq., LL.B., 
B.A., Y.P. and Treas. L S, ; *Thomas H. Powell, Esq. 
Treasurer — William Thomas Suffolk, Esq. 
Secretaries — Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A. ; Rev. W. H. Dallinger, 
LL.D., F.R.S. 
Twelve other Members of Council — Alfred W. Bennett, Esq., M.A., 
B.Sc. ; Rev. Edmund Carr, M.A., F.R.Met.S. ; Edward Dadswell, Esq. ; 
Charles Haughton Gill, Esq., F.C.S. ; Richard G. Hebb, Esq , M.A., 
M.D., F.R.C.P. ; George C. Karop, Esq., M.R.C.S.; Edward Milles 
Nelson, Esq. ; Prof. Urban Pritchard, M.D. ; *CharlesF. Rousselet, Esq.; 
*Prof. Charles Stewart, Pres. L.S. ; *John Jewell Vezey, Esq. ; Thomas 
Charters White, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.D.S. 
The President then read his Annual Address. | 
Dr. R. Braith waite, in moving a hearty vote of thanks to the President 
for the very admirable address to which they had just had the pleasure 
of listening, said he felt sure that all who were present must agree that 
it had afforded a confirmation of his opening remarks that no amount of 
oratory could have satisfactorily replaced the extremely interesting 
description of facts of which this address so largely consisted. The 
wonderful way in which these minute creatures were adapted to the 
conditions under which they existed, and the extraordinary care and 
skill with which the President had followed out his observations were 
most remarkable, and there was, he believed, no one else either in this 
country or, perhaps, even in Europe, whose knowledge of the subject 
was greater. 
Mr. T. C. White said he should be very proud to second this vote of 
thanks to the President for his address ; he felt sure that the name of 
Mr. Michael would be associated for ever and ever with the Acari. 
They had not only his monumental work on the Oribatidm but they 
found he was still carrying on his researches with the successful results 
which had been laid before them. This work was one which evidenced 
in a surprising manner the delicacy of manipulation acquired so as to 
be able to undertake the dissection of these mites, and to cut a series of 
sections of them. The great interest which Mr. Michael had thrown 
around the subject, not only in this address, but by the record of all 
that he had previously done, would, he hoped, be the means of inducing 
many others to take up the subject for themselves. 
* Those with an asterisk (*) have not held during the preceding year the office 
for which they were nominated. t See ante, p. 18. 
