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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
Dr. Braitliwaite having put his motion to the meeting, it was carried 
by hearty acclamation. 
The President said that at so late an hour of the evening he would 
not respond at any length to the extremely kind remarks of the mover 
and seconder of this resolution, but would only thank the Fellows present 
for the very cordial manner in which they had passed this vote of 
thanks. 
Mr. J. J. Yezey thought they would not be doing their duty if 
they allowed the meeting to close without expressing their thanks to 
the Treasurer, Secretaries, and other Officers of the Society for their 
services during the past year. When they remembered the efficient way 
in which these gentlemen had discharged their duties, their unflagging 
energies and courtesy to all with whom they came in contact, he was 
sure it would be felt that the best thanks of the Society were due to 
them. He therefore had great pleasure in proposing that this should 
be done. 
The President hoped he might be allowed to second this proposal, 
knowing so well as he did how deeply the Society was indebted to its 
Council and Officers for the attention which they had given to its affairs 
during the year. Having put the resolution to the meeting, it was 
carried unanimously, amidst considerable applause. 
Prof. Bell said he thought that the most important of the Officers of 
the Society was the Treasurer, on whom, had he still been present, he 
should have called to reply ; but if the duty did not lie with him, it 
had always been recognized as the office of the Junior Secretary to 
respond to such a vote of thanks. He suggested that the cause of the 
absence of Dr. Dallinger that evening might be due to his anxiety to 
escape that ordeal. But, however that might be, he had himself been 
thinking if it might not be possible that the falling off in their balance, 
and the large number of subscriptions which were in arrear, might not 
after all be in some way due to the fact that the Senior Secretary had 
been too long in office — he would just throw this out as a suggestion. 
Really, however, he hardly thought that they deserved all the kind 
things which had been said of them, for, after all, the work was not very 
great, considering how cheerfully they were assisted by the Fellows of 
the Society ; and it was some pleasure to serve a Society where so much 
interest was taken in the proceedings, and the meetings of which were 
far better attended than was the case with those of many other Societies 
whose membership was much larger. Of course, it would be obvious 
that they could not do everything from that side of the table, but with 
the co-operation of the Fellows of the Society they would spare no effort 
to make the meetings as interesting in the future as they had been in 
the past. 
New Fellows : — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows : — 
Mr. Frederick William Watson Baker, Dr. William A. Campbell, 
Mr. Arnold W. Cooper, Mr. Henry T. Pease, Lieut.-Colonel Henry 
George Fombelle Siddons, R.A. 
