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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL

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_Read at the Thirteenth Annual General Meeting, Thursday, June_
28, 1906.

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THE COUNCIL have to report that the number of members and subscribers
on the Society's list is 536; a net increase of 28 over last
year. This is largely due to the additional support received from the
Admiralty, which has increased the number of its subscriptions to
fourteen, as well as to the accession of other departments of the
public service and of public institutions, including

The War Course College, Devonport;

The War Course College, Portsmouth;

The Staff College, Camberley;

The University of Liverpool;

The Public Libraries, Cardiff;

The Public Libraries, Croydon;

and, in his private capacity, the Secretary of State for War. The
Society of Swedish Naval Officers, Stockholm, has also been admitted
as a subscriber.

On the other hand, death has removed nine of our members, and among
them two who have, from the beginning, been most active in furthering
the ends and promoting the interests of the Society. These are:--

Captain MONTAGU BURROWS, R.N., Chichele Professor of History in the
University of Oxford, and known to all of us as the author of the
_Life of Hawke_; and

Rear-Admiral Sir WILLIAM WHARTON, K.C.B., Hydrographer to the
Admiralty.

The names of the others are:--

Sir W. LAIRD CLOWES;
Earl COWPER;
Lord CURRIE, G.C.B.;
Commander W.M. LATHAM, R.N.;
Mr. C.A. NANKIVELL;
Mr. G.R. STEVENS;
Commander W.H. WATSON, R.N.R.

While congratulating the Society on the improving appearance of the
list, the Council would again urge on every member the necessity of
his individual co-operation in the endeavour to make the work of the
Society more generally and widely known. To this end they also invite
the assistance of the Press. It is only by such increased publicity
that the numbers, the funds, and therefore the work and usefulness, of
the Society can be maintained.

Since the date of the last General Meeting the Society has issued:

For 1905. Vol. XXX. _The First Dutch War_ (Vol. III.). Edited by
the late Dr. S.R. GARDINER and Mr. C.T. ATKINSON.

For