REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 



CLOSE OF THE TWENTIETH SESSION. 



In presenting the Report, at the close of the 

 Twentieth Session, the Council is happy in again 

 being enabled to congratulate the Members upon 

 the prosperity of the Society. 



During the Session twelve new ordinary members, 

 and sixteen subscribers, have been enrolled. Earl 

 FiTZWiLLiAM and B. R. Haydon, Esq., have been 

 unanimously elected honorary members. 



The ordinary funds of the Society are in a satis- 

 factory state. For the first time during many years 

 the receipts have exceeded the expenditure; and 

 were it not that Mr. Knight's account for printing 

 and publishing the first volume of the Society's 

 Transactions has been this year taken into the 



