this is only partially accounted for by certain extraor- 

 dinary repairs : it is in reality connected with some of 

 the novel circumstances already alluded to, in which 

 the Society is placed. 



A partial cause of this deficiency, and a conse- 

 quence of the same circumstances, is to be found in 

 the almost unprecedented fact, that in the course of 

 the expiring year, not a single new Member has been 

 added to the numbers of the Society. Rule 49, by 

 which a certain class of persons under age are admis- 

 sible without the usual payment of three guineas, has 

 been acted upon in one instance, and for the first time, 

 though it has now been many years in operation. It 

 has been suggested that the annual subscription re- 

 quired from such parties is fixed at too high a rate. 



The Council have to conclude their enumeration 

 of adverse occurrences by lamenting the paucity of 

 Lectures which they have been enabled to supply. 

 Negotiations were opened with various Lecturers of 

 eminence, but were not brought to any satisfactory 

 issue, except in the case of the course on Optics, 

 delivered by Mr. Addams. We have, however, the 

 gratification to state, that by means of an arrangement 

 with the gentlemen connected with the Leeds Medical 

 School, this Society will, during the intersessional 

 months, have the honour of being the first to introduce 

 to a Yorkshire audience Dr. Grant, the first British 

 comparative anatomist of the age. 



The Papers read at the ordinary meetings of the 

 Society, have certainly not been second in interest or 



