Drysdale, M.D., President; Mr.Swaagman, Treasurer; Mrs.Besant, Secretary; Mr.
Shearer, Assistant-Secretary; and Mr.Hember, Financial Secretary.
Since 1877 the League, under the same indefatigable president, has worked hard to carry out its objects; it has issued a large number of leaflets and tracts; it supports a monthly journal, the _Malthusian;_ numerous lectures have been delivered under its auspices in all parts of the country; and it has now a medical branch, into which none but duly qualified medical men and women are admitted, with members in all European countries.
Another result of the prosecution was the accession of "D." to the staff of the _National Reformer_.

This able and thoughtful writer came forward and joined our ranks as soon as he heard of the attack on us, and he further volunteered to conduct the journal during our expected imprisonment.

From that time to this--a period of fifteen years--articles from his pen appeared in its columns week by week, and during all that time not one solitary difficulty arose between editors and contributor.

In public a trustworthy colleague, in private a warm and sincere friend, "D." proved an unmixed benefit bestowed upon us by the prosecution.
Nor was "D." the only friend brought to us by our foes.

I cannot ever think of that time without remembering that the prosecution brought me first into close intimacy with Mrs.Annie Parris--the wife of Mr.
Touzeau Parris, the Secretary of the Defence Committee throughout all the fight--a lady who, during that long struggle, and during the, for me, far worse struggle that succeeded it, over the custody of my daughter, proved to me the most loving and sisterly of friends.