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printing is less, and there has been a saving in the mis- 
cellaneous items grouped under Office Expenses. Two Life- 
Compositions were received during the year, and were in- 
vested in Consols ; the amount so invested is now £581 18s. 
( = £588 9s. 11d. Consols). Owing to the increase in 
ordinary revenue, combined with liberal donations towards 
the cost of Papers published, and the decrease in expenditure, 
the balance in hand, which at the beginning of the year was 
only nominal, reached the large sum of £86 4s. 2d. at the 
end. Part of this has since been treated as a loan to the 
Capital Account, and expended on the new bookcases and 
repairs to existing ones, rendered necessary by the Staintonian 
bequest. 
11, CHanpos STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE, W. 
18th January, 1899. 
The Balance Sheet and Report of the Council having been 
unanimously adopted, it was announced that no notice had 
been sent to the Secretaries proposing to substitute other 
names for those contained in the lists prepared by the Council. 
The following Fellows therefore constitute the Council for 
1899 :—Walter F. H. Blandford, M.A., F.Z.S.; George C. 
Champion, F.Z.S. ; Thomas A. Chapman, M.D. ; Horace St. J- 
K. Donisthorpe ; the Rev. Canon W. W. Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; 
Charles J. Gahan, M.A. ; A. Hugh Jones ; Robert McLachlan, 
F.R.S., F.L.S. ; Frederic Merrifield ; Edward Saunders, F.LS. ; 
Roland Trimen, F.R.S., F.L.8.; James W. Tutt; George 
Henry Verrall ; James J. Walker, R.N., F.L.S. ; and Charles 
O. Waterhouse. 
The following are the Officers elected :—President, Mr. 
George Henry Verrall; Zreaswrer, Mr. Robert McLachlan ; 
Secretaries, Mr. James J. Walker and Mr. Charles J. Gahan ; 
LInbrarian, Mr. George C. Champion. 
The Address of the retiring President, Mr. Ronanp TRIMEN, 
was then read on his behalf by Mr. Blandford, one of the 
Secretaries. 
Professor Mrnpoua, at its conclusion, proposed a vote of 
thanks to the President for his valuable and interesting 
