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Council’s fieporl 
for tbe flear ettbttuj September 30tb, 1914. 
Tn presenting the Eleventh Annual Report, the Council has the 
**■ pleasure to record another year of continued prosperity. The 
number of Members on 30th September was 516 against 426 on 
the same date last year, being an increase of 90. 
During the year general and other meetings were held as 
follows:— 
The Annual Meeting. 
The Presidential Address. 
10 General Lectures. 
34 Sectional Lectures. 
9 Botanical Meetings for the Microscopical Study of 
Algse. 
3 General Excursions. 
12 Sectional Excursions. 
Making a total of 70 meetings as compared with 73 held in the 
previous year. 
At the beginning of August Great Britain became involved in 
the European War, and in consequence, the General and Sectional 
Excursions for that month and September were abandoned. 
The General Lectures were as follows:— 
1913. 
Nov. 8th.—The Presidential Address, by Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., 
etc. 
Nov. 22nd.—“From Christiania to Bergen across Norway by the Valders 
route,” by Mr. Geo. G. Hamilton, F.R.C.S., F.R.H.S. 
Dec. 6th.—“ The Scenerv of North-West and Mid-Wales and the Wye 
Valley,” by Mr. L. ‘Richardson, F.R.S. (Edin.), F.L.S., F.G.S. 
Dec. 20th.—“ Some of the Architectural Wonders of Western India-,” 
by Mr. Claude Lyon. 
1914. 
Jan. 10th.—“Algiers and the Sahara,” by Dr. C. E. Moss, D.Se., F.L.S. 
Jan. 24th.—“ Fiji and the' Fijians,” by Sir Everard im Thurm, 
K.C.M.G., C.B., LL.D. 
Feb. 7th.—“ Samoa—-the lovely Island home of Robt. Louis Stevenson 
and its interesting People,” by Mr. James E. Liddiard, F.R.G.S., 
etc. 
Feb. 21st.—“The Caves -and Cave Dwellers of the Mendips,” by Mr. 
H. E. Balch/F.S.A. 
March 7th.—“.Stonehenge and Kindred Stone Monuments,” by Mr. Wm. 
Dale, F.S.A. 
March 21st.—“ Pre-historic Mammals,” by Mr. H. Franklin Rawnsley, 
M.A., J.P. 
April 25th.—“ Silica, as applied to the Arts and Industries,” by Mr. 
Hubert Painter, B.Sc., F.C.S. 
All were illustrated by Lantern Slides. 
Among the Sectional Lectures was a series treating of Silica 
from the Physical, Geological, Geographical and Botanical aspects, 
