REPQRT OF THE COUNCIL. 



In presenting their Fourteenth Annual Report, the Council 

 have only to direct the attention of the Fellows to the 

 following statements of the proceedings in the several de- 

 partments since the last Anniversary. 



I. GENERAL ESTABLISHMENT. 

 1. Members. — a. Fellows. 



The number of Fellows on the Books of the Society at 

 the present moment amounts to 2849, of whom 1132 are 

 contributors of £3 per annum, and 1119 of £2. This is 

 exclusive of Candidates for the Fellowship, of whom there 

 are at present 44, making the whole number of Fellows 

 and Fellows-elect 2893. Of these, 75 have been elected 

 since the last Anniversary, and 5 re-admitted under the 

 provision of the By-Laws, Chap. I. sect. 9. Within the 

 same period there have been 60 deaths, 69 resignations, 

 and 145 removals, altogether amounting to 274 Fellows, 

 whom the Society has lost within the past year. Of this 

 comparatively large number, however, it is to be ob- 

 served, that 53 of the removals properly belong to the 

 year 1839, but are included in the past year, from an 

 accidental informality which occurred in giving them 

 notice of their liability, and which induced the Council to 

 enlarge the period of their removal, as stated in the last 

 Anniversary Report. 



Among those Fellows who have been removed by death 

 within the past year, the Council cannot pass over the 

 name of Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Esq., without record- 

 ing their sense of his high scientific attainments. Mr. 

 Vigors, as is well known, was the first Secretary of this 

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