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A comparison of the chief items with the corresponding amounts 

 of last year 



1889-90. 1890-91. 



Annual Subscriptions and Composition 



Fees £143 1-3 ... £273 9 



Founders' Subscriptions . . . 300 ... 100 



Rent of Tables and Sale of Specimens . 185 5 ... 240 19 11 



shows an increase in the subscriptions of Annual and Life Members, 

 and also points to an increased use of the Laboratory by the public 

 both for original investigation and for the obtaining of material for 

 teaching purposes. On the other hand only one Founders' sub- 

 scription has been received during the year. 



The Council are glad to be able to announce that in addition to 

 the £500 annually granted (during a period of five years) to the 

 Association by H.M. Government, a further sum of £500 has been 

 placed on the estimates for the current financial year. 



Mr. J. P. Thomasson, M.P., has generously offered the sum of 

 £250 for expenses incurred in carrying out observations bearing on 

 the closure of certain extra-territorial waters to beam-trawlers by 

 international convention. It is proposed to take advantage of his 

 offer immediately. 



The Council have recently taken steps to bring the claims of the 

 Laboratory and its work under the notice of the Technical Educa- 

 tion Committees of the County Councils of the South Coast of 

 England. 



The Officers and Vice-Presidents proposed by the Council for 

 the year 1891-92 are : 



PRESIDENT. 

 Prof. E. Ray Lankester, LL.D., F.R.S. 



YICE-PRESIDENTS. 



The Duke of Argyll, K.G., F.R.S. 

 The Duke of Sutherland, K.G. 

 The Duke of Abercorn, C.B. 

 The Earl of St. Germans. 

 The Earl of Morley. 

 The Earl of DuciE, F.R.S. 

 Lord Walsingham, F.R.S. 

 Lord Revelstoke. 

 The Right Hon. A. J. BalfoUR, M.P., 

 F.R.S. 



The Right Hon. Joseph Chamber- 



LAIN, M.P. 

 Prof. G. J. Allman, F.R.S. 

 Sir Edward Birkbeck, Bart., M.P. 

 Prof. Flower, C.B., F.R.S. 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. 

 Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S. 

 Sir Henry Thompson. 

 Rev. Canon Norman, D.C.L., F.R.S. 

 Captain Wharton, R.N., F.R.S. 



J. P. Thomasson, Esq. 



