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Annual Report of the Council, April, 1893. 



In the Session 1892-3, now closed, 8 new ordinary mem- 

 bers have been admitted, 8 have resigned, and 4 have been 

 removed by death. These changes leave the number of 

 ordinary members on the Society's roll on the 31st March, 

 1893, as 124, against 128 at the corresponding period in 

 1892. The names of the ordinary members who have died 

 during the session are Dr. Carl Schorlemmer, F.R.S., Dr. J. 

 E. Morgan, the Rev. Canon Lloyd, and Mr. J. S. Crowther. 

 The Society has also lost by death the following honorary 

 members : Alphonse de Candolle, Sir Richard Owen, Dr. 

 A. W. von Hofman, and Dr. Ernest Werner von Siemens. 

 A memoir of Professor Schorlemmer, F.R.S., has been 

 prepared by Professor Harold B. Dixon, F.R.S., and is in 

 course of printing in the Society's Memoirs. Memorial 

 notices of the other ordinary and honorary members 

 deceased during the session are either appended to this 

 report, or will be added to it when it is reprinted in the 

 Memoirs and Proceedings. 



The balance sheets present the details of the receipts 

 and expenditure of the session. The total balance in favour 

 of the Society on the 31st March, 1893, lying in the hands 

 of the Society's bankers, is ^136. 8s. 4d. This amount is 

 £2)A- I2S. 5d. less than the balance at the beginning of the 

 session, and of the funds in hand £106. 17s. od. is held 

 for natural history purposes, thus leaving only ^^29. lis. 4d. 

 for the general purposes of the Society. 



The condition of the Society's premises is such as to 

 require their early renovation, and it is greatly to be desired 



