REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



With the return of the Annual General Meeting it has 

 again become the duty of the Council to report on the pro- 

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

 general concerns ; and they have again the gratification of 

 renevfing the statement that both the one and the other are 

 highly satisfactory. The scientific objects of the Institution 

 have, during the past year, been actively pursued ; the num- 

 ber of its Members has been considerably increased ; and 

 its financial condition has been materially improved. 

 The increase in the number of 



Members 



since the last Annual General Meeting has been greater than 

 in any preceding year of the Society's existence, with the 

 exception of that in which it first became active. The num^ 

 ber of Fellows elected since April, 1834, has been 385; 

 and the resignations having been 62, and the deaths 49, 

 the actual increase in this class is 274. The total number 

 of Fellows and Fellows Elect on the present day is 2804. 

 The Candidates for the Fellowship now on the books are 51. 

 The vacancies which existed in the List of Foreign Mem- 

 bers at the last Anniversary have been supplied by the elec- 

 tion of MM. Audouin, Carus, Tiedemaun, and Valenciennes. 



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