174 Annual Report of the Council. 



Annual Report of the Council, ist April, 1892. 



The number of members on the roll on the 31st March, 

 1892, is 128 against 133 at the corresponding period in 

 1 89 1. The number of new members admitted during the 

 year has been 7, while 8 members have resigned. The 

 Society has lost 4 of its members by death, viz. : — Sir 

 Thomas Sowler ; Mr. Edmund Salis Schwabe, B.A. ; Dr. 

 W. C. Henry, F.R.S. ; and Mr. Oliver Heywood. It has 

 also lost five of its honorary members by death : — Baron 

 Emile de Laveleye ; Dr. Ferdinand Romer ; Sir George 

 Airey ; John Couch Adams, F.R.S. ; and Prof. Hermann 

 Kopp. 



The receipts and expenditure of the past session are 

 set forth in detail in the accompanying balance sheets, and 

 the total balance in favour of the Society, on the 31st 

 March, 1892, stands at £171. cs. 9d., as represented by the 

 cash lying in the hands of the Society's bankers. The 

 amount at the corresponding period of the previous session 

 was .£353. os. 3d. 



The diminution in the Society's funds is, in the main, 

 explained by the fact recorded in the last annual report, 

 that no payment had been made in the session 1890-91 for 

 printing and binding the Society's Memoirs, &c, whereas 

 this year's payments include two years' charges, viz., 

 ^"265. 1 6s. 3d. More than the normal expenditure has 

 been incurred during the session now closed for repairs to 

 building and furniture, and for cleaning carpets, curtains, 

 and the like. Some additional shelving for the increasing 



