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THURSDAY, JUNE 6ru, 1907. 
Gnnual General Meeting. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 6ra, 1907. 
The Council have pleasure in reporting that during the year 
now past, the 53rd year of the Society’s existence, the Society 
has fully maintained its position and successfully carried out the 
objects with which on the 1st September, 1854, it was founded. 
Hight Lectures and Papers have been given and read during 
the Session, all having been illustrated with Lantern Slides. 
Two of the Meetings were held at Hove, the remainder in 
Brighton. The attendance at these Meetings on the whole has 
been good. 
The financial position of the Society is satisfactory, there 
being a balance in the hands of the Treasurer of £22 2s. 8d., in 
addition to which there is a sum of £100 Consols invested on 
behalf of the Society. 
There are now 140 Members of the Society, comprising two 
Life Members, 19 Lady Members, 108 other ordinary Members, 
and 11 Honorary Members. This number differs but little from 
the number of Members at the commencement of the Session, 
the losses by death and resignation being equalled by the 
accession of new Members. 
The Council regret to have to record a loss to the Society by 
the death during the year of Mr. J. W. Nias, who for many 
years rendered it service in the capacity of one of the Honorary 
Auditors; and also by the death of Mr. W. Seymour Burrows, 
a Past.President and Vice-President of the Society. The death 
of such distinguished authority on British mosses as Mr. 
W. Mitten, who was an Honorary Member of the Society for 
many years, must not pass without an expression of the Society’s 
regret. 
