REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 



Your Committee, in presenting their Twelfth Annual 

 Report, have to record that the past year, although un- 

 marked by any very striking occurrence, has been by no 

 means deficient in work of interest and utility. 



Your Committee have the pleasure of announcing that 

 the Council of University College have again renewed, for 

 the ensuing year, their long-continued permission for the 

 meetings of the Club to be held at this place ; and that the 

 cordial feeling that has always existed between the College 

 and the Club remains unabated. 



The Club has lost by death during the past year the oldest 

 Honorary Member, Professor Guiseppe de Notaris, who was 

 elected in 1867, and of whom a short obituary notice appears 

 in the Journal : also six ordinary Members — Mr. J. Bowles, 

 Mr. J. Callaghan, Mr. S. Eyre, Mr. W. B. Holdernesse, 

 Mr. F. Rixon, and Mr. "W. "Wheldon. Twenty-one Members 

 have resigned, twenty-four have been struck off the list of 

 Members for non-payment of Subscription for five years and 

 upwards, forty-five new Members have been elected, and the 

 Club's numerical strength is now, 534, out of a total of 

 1,050 gentlemen who have joined since its commencement. 



The following papers and communications have been 

 contributed during the past year : — 



