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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR igo8. 
Council have not up to the present been able to utilize the 
whole of these cases, owing to lack of space, it is hoped that 
further accommodation will shortly be provided, and in that 
event the purchase will prove a most useful one considerably 
below the cost of providing new cases. 
Your President, Dr. Tempest Anderson, is in New Zealand, 
and will doubtless bring home material for future lectures. 
The Members are indebted to him, not only for securing and 
arranging the Lecture Programme, but also for a donation of 
£20 towards the purchase of the Backhouse Cases, and for 
the Entertainment provided at a most enjoyable Garden Party 
on the 10th J uly last. 
Your Council recommend the Rev. E. C. Owen and Messrs. 
H. C. Shann, E. R. Tate, and H. V. Scott, as new members 
of the Council in the place of those retiring by'rotation. 
The Society has lost 9 Members and 1 Lady Subscriber by 
death, and 28 Members, 2 Lady Subscribers, and 2 Associates 
by resignation, these losses have been more than counter¬ 
balanced by the increase in new members. 
Your Council would specially call the attention of the 
Members to the loss the Society has sustained by the death of 
Canon Fleming and Mr. Edward Taylor. Both took a lively^ 
interest in the welfare of your Society. 
The late Canon Fleming opened the Autumn Session of 
1907 with a Reading from Shakespeare, and had promised 
a similar treat for the Autumn Session of 1908, but fate 
decreed otherwise. 
The late Mr. Edward Taylor presented your Society, 
amongst other gifts, with the most interesting relics of a 
Roman Christian Burial, preserved in the upper room of the 
Hospitium. 
The Lectures delivered on Thursday Evenings w T ere as 
follows :— 
Thursday, January gth.—“The New Colour Photography,” (with Lantern 
Illustrations). By F. Martin Duncan, F.R.P.S. 
Thursday, January 23rd.—“York Minster,” (with Lantern Illustrations). 
By E. H. Howard. 
Thursday, February Gth.—“Alpine Plants,” (with Lantern Illustrations). 
By G. Yeld, M.A. 
Thursday, February 20th.—“ Green Leaves and their Work,” (Illustrated by 
Lantern Pictures). By Harold Wager, F.R.S. 
