THIRTY-NINTH 
ANNUAL REPORT. 
Wiru the advent of another year, our Society will 
have completed its fourth decade; this being the Thirty- 
ninth Annual General Meeting. 
The present high state of its prosperity and efficiency 
is perhaps the best justification for its existence, and 
with the continued co-operation of its Members, it is 
sincerely wished that this high standard will long be 
maintained. 
Altogether 98 new Members have been elected during 
the year, this being the largest addition to the Membership 
roll in any recent year; but, unfortunately, the losses 
by deaths, removals, and other causes, have almost been 
correspondingly heavy. 
The present Membership of the Society stands at 1,028, 
which shews an increase of 13 over the total number of 
Members at the corresponding period of last year. 
The transfer of the Grosvenor Museum Building to 
the City, to which reference was made in the last Annual 
Report, will take place on August ist; after which date this 
Society, along with the Archeological Society, will become 
tenants of the Corporation. 
Both Societies will, however, be represented on a 
Joint Committee, which will include representatives of 
the City Council, and which will have control of the 
building. 
We have every reason to believe that these arrange- 
ments will work smoothly and satisfactorily to all con- 
cerned. 
The Legacies from the late Mr. J. Eyton Williams, 
and the late Mrs. George Churton, have now been invested 
in Great Western Railway Company Stock, in the names 
of the following Trustees :—Messrs. George P. Miln, F. W, 
