3071. Of these, 132 have been elected since the last An- 

 niversary, and 4 re-adniitted under the provision of the 

 By-Laws (Chap. I. sect. 9.). The number of resignations 

 during the same period has been 33, and of deaths 43, 

 amounting together to 76, and leaving an apparent increase 

 of 60 Fellows and Fellows-elect on the past as compared 

 with the preceding year. It is to be observed, however, 

 that the removals authorized by the By-Laws, in consequence 

 of outstanding arrears, are not included in the statement 

 for last year. Owing to an accidental informality in the 

 notices apprising defaulters of their liability to removal, the 

 Council deemed it expedient to enlarge the time for paying 

 up their arrears to the present day : 18 have availed them- 

 selves of this extension, and discharged their obligations 

 to the Society ; 7 have been placed on the dormant list, and 

 54 are still in arrear, and will be forthwith struck off the 

 list of Fellows. The actual number of bona fide contribu- 

 ting Members consequently remains very nearly the same as 

 at the last Anniversary, there being a balance of 2 in favour 

 of the present year ; but of the deaths, I'esignations and re- 

 movals, the greater number have taken place among that 

 class of contributors who pay the £2 subscription, whilst 

 the accessions necessarily belong to the more productive 

 class of £3 contributors. Though, therefore, there has 

 been scarcely any accession to the number of Members du- 

 ring the past as compared with the pi-evious year, there is 

 an actual increase in the amount of their contributions. 



b. Honorary and Foreign Members. 



The number of Honorary Members remains the same as 

 at the last Anniversary. 



Among the Foreign Members the Society has to lament 

 the recent loss of two of its most distinguished Associates, 

 Professor Blumenbach of Gottingen, and M. Desmarest ; 

 and though neither of these celebrated individuals took an 

 active or immediate part in our proceedings, the power- 

 ful influence which their writings produced on the advance- 

 ment of Natural History during the last half century, and 



