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 this year it is proposed to issue The Reminiscences of
Commander James Anthony Gardner, 1775-1806, edited by Sir R. VESEY
HAMILTON; and Select Correspondence of Sir Charles Middleton,
afterwards Lord Barham, edited by Professor J.K. LAUGHTON.
These are now well advanced, and will, it is hoped, be issued in the course of the autumn.
Of the several works in preparation—a list of which will be found in the Advertisement at the end of Vol. XXX—it is unnecessary to speak here.
The Society will, however, be interested to learn that copies have been found of the Fighting Instructions of Hawke and Rodney. These were described at some length by Mr. Julian S. Corbett in the Times of December 19, and, by the kind permission of the owner, Mr. Pritchard, will be edited for the Society by Mr. Corbett, and issued—probably next year—either as a separate volume or included in a volume of the Miscellany.
The Balance Sheet is appended.