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Nature Notes : 
THE SELBORNE SOCIETrS MACyAZINE. 
No. 2II. JULY, 1907. VoL. XVIII. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
R. DUDLEY BUXTON (the Chairman of the Council), 
upon taking the Chair, said : Although the meeting was 
in a sense a purely formal one, the business being the 
election of the President, the Vice-President, and the 
Members of Council, yet there were certain matters which called 
for special remark, and he proposed to deal with these. 
The Report and Balance Sheet would be submitted for 
adoption. As would be seen the Report recorded a year of 
strenuous effort. It has been marked by important changes in 
the system of election and other matters of government. In the 
past there had been perhaps too little attention paid by the 
members of the Society to the affairs of the Society. The 
Councillors had been automatically elected, one Council passing 
on its duties to its own nominees, whose election had become a 
formal confirmation of their nomination. By the revised rules 
this ceased. The representation of the Central Society was 
secured by the election of twelve councillors, none of whom 
would be members of a branch. Of these four would retire each 
year, but would be eligible for re-election, but in every case 
nominees of the Council would have to be announced in the 
pages of Nature Notes, a fortnight at least before the Annual 
General Meeting. On the present occasion all the elected 
members of Council would have to be submitted for acceptance 
by the meeting, as they had been elected for only one year at the 
last Annual General Meeting, which occurred before the altera- 
tion in the rules. It was hoped that the change which had been 
made would induce members of the Society to devote more 
personal attention to the Society’s affairs, and be careful to elect 
such candidates from among their number whom they could 
trust to maintain the best traditions of the Selborne Society. 
There had been certain nebulous doubts expressed about the 
vitality of the Society, and these he (the Chairman) hoped and 
