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Annual Report. 



[Feb. 



Annual Report for 1900. 



The Council of the Society have the honor to submit tlie following 

 Report on the state of the Society's affairs during the year ending 

 Hist December, 1900. As regai-ds the work accomplished daring the 

 year, time only will permit of judgment ; but with regard to the two 

 essential conditions in the life of evei-y association, namely, member- 

 ship and finances, the Society is to be congtatuLited on a state of 

 affairs more satisfactory than has been the privilege of Council to 

 leport for very many years. 



Member List. 



Our number of Ordinary Members now stands at 311, which is 

 higlier than in any year since 1887. 



44 Ordinary Members have been elected, but we have at the same 

 time lost 34, namely, 9 by withdrawal, 6 by deatli, 4 by removal under 

 Kule 9, 14 by removal under Rule 38 and 2 by removal under Rule 40. 

 At the close of the year there were fdso 7 gentlemen's names before the 

 Society as candidates for membership. According to the operation of 

 Rule 5 it sometimes takes nearly two full months between the date 

 of application and the election of a member, which is sometimes an 

 inconvenient amount of delay. As the main loss has been due to the 

 removal of names of members wlio have been in arrears for some years, 

 tlie actual change of membership is more satisfactory than appears 

 in the tabular comparison of the hist with the previous six years. 



The following table gives the statistics for the last six yeai'S : — 



