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appoint two Auditors to examine the Treasurer’s accounts which would 
have to be presented at the Annual Meeting. On behalf of the Council 
he appointed Mr. W. T. Suffolk to this office, and asked those who 
were present to elect some other Fellow to act with him. 
Mr. Nelson thereupon proposed Mr. J. M. Allen as Auditor on the 
part of the Fellows of the Society. This proposition, having been 
seconded by Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, was put to the meeting and unani- 
mously carried. 
The President read the list of Fellows who were nominated by the 
Council as Officers and Council for the ensuing year. 
The following Instruments, Objects, &c., were exhibited 
Mr. H. Bernard. — New Mechanical Stage. 
The Hon. J. G. P. Vereker. — Photomicrographs of Podura Scales. 
New Fellows. — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows: — 
Mr. Alfred Thomas Burgess, Hr. Edmond William Wace Carlier, 
Mr. Peter David Coghill, Sir John Coode, K.C.M.G., Messrs. Ludovico 
W. Hart, Edward Heron-Alien, and B. Rama Shastri. 
Annual Meeting, held 20th January, 1892, at 20, Hanover Square, 
W., the President (Dr. R. Braithwaite, F.L.S.) in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the meeting of 16th December last were read and 
confirmed, and were signed by the President. 
Prof. Bell said that the Society had been unable to follow the 
example of several other scientific bodies who had suspended their 
meetings, arranged to be held on that evening, out of consideration for 
the memory of His late Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence and 
Avondale, whose funeral had taken place that afternoon. The reason for 
this was, that they were required by their Bye-laws tothold the Annual 
Meeting of the Society on that particular date, and no alteration could 
be made without a suspension of the Bye-laws for the purpose. To do 
this would have required a special meeting to be convened, for which a 
week’s notice was necessary, and as the time at disposal had not been 
sufficient for this notice to be given, there was no alternative open to 
them. The Council had, however, decided only to take on that occasion 
such purely formal business as was necessary for the purposes of the 
Annual Meeting, and to adjourn the sitting as soon as this was com- 
pleted. The President’s Address and other matters would consequently 
be postponed until their next meeting. 
Prof. Bell also said that bearing in mind the sad event which had so 
recently occurred, especially with regard to the fact that the Prince of 
Wales was the Patron of the Society, the Council had drawn up a message 
of sympathy, which would be submitted in due course to His Royal 
Highness. 
