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year after year, give us great promise of what is yet to come, and I think we 
have reason to congratulate ourselves on being so admirably officered. (Hear, 
hear.) 
Mr. G. J. Scales— I have great pleasure in seconding this motion. 
The resolution was then carried unanimously. 
Mr. West— All I can say is that I and the rest of the Council feel 
exceedingly obliged to you. 
Mr. Reddie. — I am extremely obliged to you for passmg this vote, so 
cordially, especially after the discussion we have just had. I had no feeling 
in that matter— the question was one involving a very fair difference of 
opinion, and upon the whole I do not know that the discussion which has 
taken place is one to be deprecated. 
Rev. Sir Tilson Marsh.— I beg to move 
“That the following gentlemen be the Council and officers for the 
ensuing year : — 
Philip Henry Gosse, Esq., F.R.S. 
Rev. Walter Mitchell, M.A. 
Charles Brooke, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.R.C.S., &c. 
Rev. Robinson Thornton, D.D. 
Honorary Treasurer . 
William Nowell West, Esq. 
Honorary Secretary. 
James Reddie, Esq., Hon. Mem. Dial. Soc. Edin. Univer. 
Honorary Foreign Secretary. 
Edward J. Morshead, Esq., H.M.C.S. 
President. 
The Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. 
Vice-Presidents. 
Council. 
Robert Baxter, Esq. (Trustee). 
Rev. A. Be la Mare, M.A. 
Rear-Admiral E. G. Fishbourne, C.B . 
R. N. Fowler, Esq., M.P. (Trustee). 
W. H. Ince, Esq., F.L.S., F.R.M.S. 
Alexander M‘ Arthur, Esq., F.R.G.S., 
William Vanner, Esq. F.R.M.S. 
Alfred J. Woodhouse, Esq., F.R.M.^. 
Rev. J. H. Rigg, B.D. 
Rev. C. A. Row, M.A. 
Rev. J. H. Titcomb, M.A. 
Rev. M. Davison. 
r .ii-.O.AJ. 
Alfred Y. Newton, Esq., F.A.S.L. 
William M. Ord, Esq., M.B. 
Rev. J. B. Owen, M.A. 
Captain F. W. H. Petrie, F.G.S. 
S. D. Waddy, Esq., B.A., Barrister- 
Rev. Charles Graham. 
N. Learoyd, Esq. 
T. W. Masterman, Esq. 
at-Law. 
Secretary. 
W. H. S. Aubrey, Esq.” 
