Report of the Council. 
For THE YEAR 1902. 
_ Read at the Annual Meeting, 6th February, 1903. 
Tue Council beg to report that 87 new members have 
been elected during the past year, and that allowing for 
resignations and removals the number of members now 
‘Stands at 286, consisting of 204 gentlemen and 82 
ladies ; a total increase of 55 members since the last 
report. 
f The Council have to record with the greatest 
possible regret the loss the Society has sustained by the 
‘death of its second President, Sir Richard Temple, who 
died on the 15th March, 1902. The Council, at a 
“meeting held on the 21st March, passed a vote of con- 
jolence and deepest sympathy with Lady Temple and 
her family, a warm tribute being paid to the untiring 
-and constant interest displayed by the late President in 
‘the affairs of the Society. 
_ As briefly mentioned in their last report the Council 
feard with the deepest regret of the death of Dr. 
Edmund Gwynn, on the 27th January, 1902, a Vice- 
President, who had been closely connected with the work 
of the Society since its formation. 
