REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



In reporting to the Annual General Meeting on the progress 

 of the Society since the last Anniversary, and on its general 

 concerns, the Council have the satisfaction of being enabled 

 to renew the statement, hitherto uniformly made on such 

 occasions, that during the past year there has been a con- 

 tinued advance towards the attainment of the Society's 

 objects, and a continued increase of support to it by the ac- 

 cession of new members. In the past year also, as in the 

 two years which immediately preceded it, there has been 

 an improvement, to a considerable extent, of the Society's 

 capital. 



Membet's. 



The increase of Members during the past year has been 

 considerable; no fewer than 257 Fellows having been elected 

 since the last Annual General Meeting. The total in- 

 crease in this class, however, has been only 177; for the 

 Society has been deprived of 39 of its Fellows by death, and 

 of 41 by resignation. The total number of Fellows and 

 Fellows elect on the present day is 2546. The Candidates 

 for the Fellowship now on the books are 62. 



Of the Foreign Members of the Society, one, the distin- 

 guished Meckel, has been removed by death since the last 

 Anniversary : the present number of Foreign Members is 

 consequently reduced to 21. It will be the duty of the 



