OUR ANNUAL MEETING. 49 



At the date of the last Committee Meeting (Sept. 3rd), the 

 total number of enrolled Members was 170; during the past 

 year 29 new Members have been added, while a few have found 

 it necessary, from various circumstances, to resign. 



With feelings of very sincere sorrow, your Committee have to 

 record the death of Col. Basevi, of Prestbury, near Cheltenham. 

 The late Col. Basevi had been a member for many years, during 

 the whole of which he took a warm and untiring interest in the 

 welfare and success of the Society. The slides circulated by him 

 were always of a peculiarly interesting character, his notes were 

 always carefully and thoughtfully written, and his drawings and 

 rough sketches were effective, and thoroughly explanatory of the 

 subjects treated. An unfinished drawing appears in one of the 

 note-books, testifying how great an interest he retained in the 

 Society to the last. 



Another member. Dr. J. Kendall Burt, of Kendal, had tempo- 

 rarily resigned in consequence of a severe illness ; he was recom- 

 mended to take a sea-voyage, but we regret to learn he died on his 

 voyage out. 



Your Committee are again, with much reluctance, compelled 

 to enforce on Members the need of greater punctuality in the 

 despatch of P. M.S. boxes, and that this may be more effectually 

 secured, they request each Member to keep in mind the name of 

 the one preceding him on the list ; and in the event of three 

 weeks passing without the receipt of a box, the preceding 

 Member should be written to, who, if the cause of delay does not 

 rest with him, must then write to his predecessor, and so on ; 

 the Member so written to, should, after the lapse of fair and 

 reasonable time, acquaint the Secretary with the delay, who will 

 at once take all necessary steps to trace the offender, and the 

 whole of the correspondence will be laid before the Committee at 

 their next meeting. 



Your Committee take pleasure in congratulating many of the 

 Members on the superior manner in which they have employed 

 both pen and pencil in the way of descriptive illustration of their 

 slides during the past session, and trust that they will take 

 advantage of the increased facihties which will be afforded to 

 them in the future, to make their Notes and illustrations still 

 more worthy a place in Our Own Journal. 



It is with no small degree of gratification that your Committee 

 are enabled to announce that the Journal of the P.M.S., which 

 has just completed its second volume, is in a fair way to achieve 

 the success so anxiously looked forward to by its promoters. As 

 is the case with every new enterprise, a certain amount of 

 difficulty has to be met and overcome, before the looked-for 



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