number removed at the commencement of 1837, 5, who 

 have since paid the arrears severally due by them, have 

 been restored by the Council. The resignations have been 

 36, and the losses occasioned by death 56. The actual 

 number of Fellows and Fellows Elect on the present day 

 amounts to 3023. 



The Candidates for the Fellowship now on the books 



are 34. 



Honorary and Foreign Members. 



The Honorary and Foreign Members remain the same 

 as at the last Anniversary. 



Corresponding Members. 

 This class of Members, to which both the Society's Me- 

 nagerie and Museum are indebted for very many interesting 

 and valuable objects, has received an addition in the elec- 

 tion of Mr. Gould, the Society's ornithological Curator, 

 now upon the point of quitting England for a temporary 

 residence in Australia, with a view to complete the publi- 

 cation of an extensive work which he has undertaken upon 

 the birds of that portion of the globe. The Council em- 

 brace this opportunity of recording their sense of the great 

 scientific value of the results which have hitherto attended 

 the zealous labours of Mr. Gould in one most extensive 

 branch of Zoology ; and they would also express the warm 

 and anxious interest which they entertain that the present 

 enterprise on which he is about to embark may be crowned 

 with that success which has hitherto accompanied his efforts 

 in the cause of Science. 



The number of Corresponding Members amounts to 1 1 7. 



Finance. • 



On a review of the Financial Statements for the past ten 

 years, it will be found that the average Annual Receipts of 

 the Societv have amounted to £15,500 ; the receipts of the 

 year ending December 1837 produced the sum of £13,960, 

 being £1500 under the average of former years. The ex- 

 penditure of the year has also been reduced to an extent 



