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ANNUAL MERTING. 
January 18th, 1899. 
Mr. Rotanp TrimeEn, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., President, in the 
Chair. 
Mr. A. Huan Joness, one of the Auditors, read the 
Treasurer’s Balance Sheet, showing a balance of £86 4s. 2d. 
in favour of the Society. 
Mr. W. F. H. Buanprorp, one of the Secretaries, read the 
following 
Report of the Council. 
The Society is to be congratulated on the close of a Session 
marked by a large increase in the number of Fellows and by 
unusual prosperity. 
During 1898 it has indeed lost by death three Ordinary 
Fellows—Mr. Stephen Barton, Dr. Ernest Candéze and Mr. 
Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., F.L.S..—and by resignation, eight 
Ordinary Fellows. 
On the other hand, three Honorary Fellows—Professor 
B. Grassi, M. Hippolyte Lucas and Dr. August Weismann— 
and thirty-four Ordinary Fellows have been elected. 
This is by far the largest number of additions to its ranks 
in any one year, except in 1886, when, owing to the grant of 
the Society’s Charter, 35 new Fellows were elected and 21 Sub- 
scribers were admitted as Fellows, the position of a Subscriber 
having been abolished. 
As in previous years, the Society is indebted to one or two 
Fellows for unremitting and successful endeavours to increase 
its members ; it is, however, noteworthy that out of 18 Fellows 
elected since the summer vacation, 9 are resident outside the 
British Isles. 
The Society now consists of 12 Honorary, 53 Life, and 359 
Fellows liable for the Annual Contribution, making in all 
424 Fellows, or 26 more than last year. 
The Transactions for the year form a volume of 444 pages, 
as against 434 pages in 1897, and consist of twenty-two 
Memoirs. These have been contributed by the following 
