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 Annual Report of the Council. 9

The conditional grant referred to in the last report as having been made by the Council in aid of the scheme for providing lantern slides representing scenes and objects of scientific interest in co-operation with the Anthropological Institute has been duly met by a grant of like amount from the funds of the Institute. The Council regret that the joint committee appointed to carry out the scheme have not drawn on the Society for any part of the grant during the past year, but this circumstance is no doubt due in a great measure to the work of the Lecture Committee having been interrupted by the sudden death of Miss Grove, and to the considerable interval which elapsed between her death and the appointment of an Hon. Secretary of the Lecture Committee in her place.

The Council have appointed Mrs. Kate Lee as a member of the joint committee as well as Hon. Secretary of the Lecture Committee, and have little doubt that the work of both committees will be pushed vigorously forward.

The joint committee appointed by the Society and the Anthropological Institute to consider the question of secur- ing a common home for the two Societies has met, and submitted a series of recommendations for the consideration of their respective Councils, but in the absence of any definite proposals the Council have felt themselves unable to accept these recommendations unreservedly. It is hoped, however, that in the course of the year they may have some practical proposal before them, and that there may be no serious obstacles, financial or otherwise, to their being favourably entertained.

The Council submit herewith the annual accounts and balance sheet duly audited, and the balloting list for the Council and officers for the ensuing year.

By order of the Council,

E. W. Brabrook,

President.