1917-] Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 277 



The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting and of 

 the Special General Meeting held on April 12, 1916, were 

 read and confirmed. 



The Secretary read the following report of the Committee 

 for the past year : — 



" The Committee have very much pleasure in being able 

 to report that during 1915-16 they have reduced the deficit 

 from £268 I5. 6d. on January 1, 1916, to £4:0 on January 1, 

 1917. The accounts for the past year, which have been 

 audited and passed by Mr. H. Munt, show a very satis- 

 factory result. The total receipts in 1916 have been 

 £941 175. Id. as compared with £768 15s. 7d. in the 

 previous year, whilst the total payments have been £938 

 9s. 4d. (of which £208 1*. 6d. were payments for liabilities 

 incurred in 1915) as against £766 18s. 2d. in 1915. The 

 large increase in the receipts is due first to the increase in 

 the rate of subscription, and secondly to sales of The Ibis 

 Supi)lement, General Index, and a large number of back 

 volumes of 'The Ibis.' The balance carried forward to 

 1917 was £3 7s. 9d., leaving a balance due to Messrs. 

 Taylor & Francis on one account of £40. 



" The cost of ' The Ibis ' has been reduced from £505 

 2s. 6c?. in 1915 to £465 Is. lid. in the year under report. 

 The present volume, which is the fifty-eighth and the fourth 

 of the Tenth Series, contains 685 pages, and is illustrated 

 with 5 coloured and 15 black plates and 12 text-figures. 

 It has probably been reduced in cost to the minimum 

 possible, and certainly far below the niinimum desirable. 

 The extra publications brought out by the Union are, 

 however, now all paid for, and it will not be necessary 

 in future to stint * The Ibis ' either in matter or plates. 



"The sale of the General Index for the years 1895-1913 

 has been better than we anticipated, 145 copies having been 

 sold. We have received since the 1st of January the sum 

 of £50 from the Dutch New Guinea Expedition Committee. 



" With regret the Committee report the deaths of the 

 following Members since the last Annual General Meeting : — 

 R. J. Balston, Commauder the Hon. R. 0. B. Bridgeman, 



