somewhat difficult task of upholding the truth and guarding against error; 
while at the same time we give the needed scope for discussion on subjects 
that are properly brought before us, and which we introduce to the Institute. 
In all these matters it has been my pleasure, so long as I have been a member 
of the Council, to be very happily associated with those who compose that 
body ; and I am sure the harmony and good feeling which have always 
existed in the Council will commend themselves to you all. I have little or 
nothing further to say, except to ask your help in every way in which you 
can give it ; and your prayers that the Council may rightly discharge 
its onerous duties. 
Mr. W. N. West (Hon. Treasurer). — I beg to thank the meeting for the 
vote of thanks it has passed to the honorary officers, Captain Petrie and 
myself. My duties are light, but Captain Petrie has difficult and arduous 
duties to perform, and on his behalf I beg to thank you for the vote you have 
just passed. 
The Chairman. — I think the Members and Associates of this Institute 
should be made acquainted with the fact that the flourishing condition of our 
Society at the present moment is, to a very great extent, due to the exertions 
of our Hon. Secretary (Cheers) ; and certainly in making the objects of 
the Institute personally known to many people, who might be supposed likely 
to join our ranks. As one of the Council myself, I am quite certain that a 
great deal more of our present success is due to the individual exertions of 
our Honorary Secretary, than is due to the collective exertions of all the rest 
of the Council put together. This is a fact which ought to be known to all 
the Members and Associates. (Cheers.) 
Dr. Jardine. — The resolution which I beg to move is “that the following 
be the Council and Officers for the ensuing year ” : — 
COUNCIL AND OFFICERS FOR 1874-75. 
President. — The Eight Honourable the Earl of Shaftesburv, K.G. 
Vice-Presidents. 
Philip Henry Gosse, Esq., F.E.S. 
Charles Brooke, Esq., M.A., F.E.S., P.E.M.S., &c. 
C. B. Eadcliffe, Esq., M.D., &c. Eev. Eobinson Thornton, D.D. 
W. Forsyth, Esq., Q.C., LL.D., M.P. Eev. Principal T. P. Boultbee, LL.D. 
Honorary Foreign Correspondents. 
Constantin de Tischendorf, LL.D., D.C.L. 
Principal J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.E.S. (and others). 
Hon. Treasurer. — William Nowell West, Esq. 
Hon. Sec. and Editor of Journal. — Capt. F. W. H. Petrie, F.G.S., F.E.S. L., &e. 
Hon. Foreign Secretary. — Edward J. Morshead, Esq., H.M.C.S. 
