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THE hundred and fifth annual general meeting of the Ray Society was held on March 18. The volume of Pennant's "Tour on the Continent 1865", edited by Prof. G. R. de Beer, was published and distributed during the past year, and it was announced that Prof. K. J. Berrill's volume on "Tunicates" had gone to press ; that the manuscript of the first volume of Messrs. Locket and Millidge's work on "British Spiders" had been received and had gone to tender, and that the manuscripts of the second volume of Prof. Balfour-Browne's "British Water-Beetles", of the late Prof. Tattersall's "British Mysidacea" and of Messrs. Dandy and Milne-Redhead's "Watsonian Vice-counties" were expected in the near future ; and it was hoped that one or more of these volumes would also be published during 1949. It was pointed out that this programme of publication would put a serious strain on the Society's finances, and it was urged that every effort should be made-to increase the membership and to enlist other means of support. Prof. G. R. de Beer, Mr. A. C. Townsend and Dr. Errol White were re-elected president, honorary treasurer and honorary secretary respectively ; "Dr. Edward Hindle and Dr. John Smart were elected vice-presidents, and Dr. W. J. Rees, Mr. Herlihy, Mr. M. A. C. Hinton and Prof. F. E. Weiss new members of council.
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Ray Society : Annual General Meeting. Nature 163, 559 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163559c0
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