Arrears^ 

 the value of which is too uncertain to admit of being esti- 

 mated with any approach to correctness. The Arrears are 

 a constantly increasing head in the Society's Accounts, and 

 necessarily so, for those who are in arrear of their Annual 

 Contributions for several years, without the intention of dis- 

 charging them, add annually on the I st of January a new 

 amount to the already outstanding account against them. 

 The Council have felt strongly the importance of removing 

 such persons from the Society, and of relieving the books 

 from accounts representing an uncertain and almost fictitious 

 value : and they have accordingly again directed that those 

 Fellows who are in arrear prior to 1833 should be written to 

 and be urged to make good their payments. Failing this, 

 the Council would be anxious to remove them fi'om the 

 Society, to the support of which they in no degree contribute. 

 At present their removal could only be efl^cted by expulsion, 

 the forms attendant on which involve an exposure so nearly 

 public as to render it unpleasant to resort voluntarily to so 

 marked a proceeding. The Council have therefore been in- 

 duced to devise a method by which the removal of any Fel- 

 low who shall be two years in ai-rear, shall, after due notice 

 given to him, be compulsory, unless on special grounds : 

 the removal to be effected by an act of the Council, and the 

 person to be capable of being re-instated on the payment, 

 within two years, of his arrears. A By-law to this effect has 

 been submitted to a Genex'al Meeting of the Society, and is 

 now suspended in the Meeting-Room : it will be balloted 

 for on June 5. 



Vuhlications. 



The Committee of Publication, which was first formally 

 appointed at the last Annual General Meeting, has perfoi'med 

 throughout the year the several duties intrusted to it. 



The Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific 

 Business have been published under its supei'intendence, and 

 have been extensively distributed both at home and abroad, 



