REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council have on the present occasion to lay before the 

 Society a detailed statement of the progress of its affairs since 

 the last Anniversary ; and in submitting the following Report 

 (being the ninth of the series since the establishment of the 

 Society,) they have again to congratulate the Members on the 

 continued prosperity which has marked the proceedings of the 

 past year. 



Members. 

 The number of Fellows elected since the last Anniversary 

 is 291. The removals ordered by the Council, in conformity 

 with the 9th section of the 1st chapter of the By-Laws, have 

 amounted to 36. Of the number removed at the commence- 

 ment of 1836, three, who have since paid the arrears severally 

 due by them, have been restored by the Council. The re- 

 signations have been 30, and the losses occasioned by death 56. 

 The actual number of Fellows and Fellows Elect on the pre- 

 sent day amounts to 3050. The Candidates for the Fellow- 

 ship now on the books are 43. 



Corresponding Members. 



The Corresponding Members amount to 111, and the 

 Foreign Members, as at the last Anniversary, to 24. 



Honorary Members. 

 An addition has been made to this important class of the 

 Members by the election of Sir Thomas Reade, His Majesty's 

 Consul- General at Tunis, whose munificence and zeal in pro- 

 moting the objects of the Society, on numerous occasions, justly 



