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Annual Report of the Council, April, 1906. 



The Society began the session with an ordinary membership 

 of 155. During the present session 14 new members have 

 joined the Society ; 1 7 resignations have been received, and 

 there has been one death, viz. : Mr. Charles J. Heywood. 

 This leaves on the roll 151 ordinary members. The Society 

 has also lost by death 2 honorary members, viz. : Dr. S. P. 

 Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 

 and Sir J. S. Burdon Sanderson, F.R.S. Memorial notices 

 of these gentlemen appear at the end of this report.* 



The Society commenced the session with a balance in hand 

 of £zS^' S^' 6d., from all sources, this amount being made up 

 of the following balances : — 



At the credit of General Fund ;^i8 5 4 



„ „ Wilde Endowment Fund... 233 16 6 



„ ,, Joule Memorial Fund 64 16 6 



„ „ Dalton Tomb Fund 34 6 2 



;^35i 5 6 



The total balance in hand at the close of the session 

 amounted to ;^426. los. 5d., and the amounts standing at the 

 credit of the separate accounts, on the 31st March, 1906, are 

 the following : — 



* Memorial notices of Dr. George Wilson, formerly an ordinary member, 

 Professor Carl Gegenbaur, of Heidelberg, and Mr. Robert Rawson, F.R. A.S., 

 honorary members of this society, appear with the others in this volume. 

 The first two of these were received too late for insertion in the volume of 

 last year, whilst the death of Mr. Rawson was not known at the time of the 

 preparation of this report. 



