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present year is compared with the past, and even with several of 
the preceding years, as will be seen from the subjoined table :— 
Paying. Absent. Total. 
OGL. coer B20 sessevss OE * sere chee 280 
TOG) a aise see 2 spalgte ss - Bo 7 ee were 311 
POD has oe OVO. wines oe 3's 19>“. Seoeeee 355 
1864.7 £34 cick ZZO ) docks eee OF fields be 380 
PGR Sa. eats se DON eles v8 Stet OO Tate bie iere re 
CC A RO Re BOS * <a o eee DAD. ciaehevernlers 387 
Tot aes bee MGT — Paves ie 109" Sees . 416 
TGR eae ne BOE: eaters o 4.98) ae 427 
MSGO™ Stress SMe Snes eae vn aoe - 442 
BVO, Tysife’s “cory 4 ZO Bajpaytayiisieeee WAS ©, iensmetaier wnt 
The Council regret to announce the death of the following ordi- 
nary members :—J. Kavenagh, Esq., R. Jardine, Esq., Lieut. R. 
C. Beavan, Babu Radhanatha Sikadira, M. H. Ormsby, Esq., LL. D., 
Babu Kéliprasanna Sinha, J. Avdall, Esq., Major J. J. Ho- 
venden, Raja Sir Deondrayana Sinha, Bahadur, K. C. 8.1. Dr. T. 
Anderson, F. L. 8. 
Although it might at first sight appear that the decrease in the 
accession of new members, and the somewhat numerous resigna- 
tions are due to a diminishing appreciation of the scientific efforts 
of the Society on the part of the public, the Council take pleasure 
in remarking that such is far from being the case. On the con- 
trary, the Council feel themselves justified in asserting that the in- 
terest of the scientific public in the working of the Society has in 
the last twelve months sensibly increased in India as well as 
abroad. Thisis particularly shewn by the largely increased demand 
for the publications of the Society, the sale of the Journal and 
Proceedings having been greater than in any previous year, and 
the Society having also received several offers of various foreign 
scientific institutions for an exchange of their publications. In no 
less a degree have the members themselves evinced their interest 
in the Society by the regularity of their contributions, both in the 
way of subscriptions and of scientific communications. The ac- 
tual income of the Society has exceeded the estimate by an appre- 
ciable amount. 
