REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



In presenting their eighteenth Annual Report of the 

 proceedings of the Society, the Council are anxious to 

 direct the attention of the Fellows towards the necessity 

 of obtaining the increased cooperation of all who are in- 

 terested in the progress of Zoological science. They are 

 confident that it is unnecessary at this time to enter into 

 any lengthened detail of the objects which it has been the 

 stedfast purpose of this Society to realise, and they can 

 refer with gratification to the Collection of Living Animals, 

 and to the Publications, as a proof that these objects have 

 never been lost sight of. The Council however are not 

 satisfied to remain at this point ; they solicit the active 

 and unanimous assistance of the Fellows in carrying for- 

 ward the work of which twenty years has but laid the 

 foundation. On their own part they promise activity, 

 zeal, and economical administration of the finances, with- 

 out sacrificing the efficiency of any department ; and they 

 respectfully but urgently call upon the Fellows to rally, 

 and aflTord them the means of carrying out to its fullest 

 extent the comprehensive scheme of usefulness which was 

 originally contemplated by the Founders. 



I. GENERAL ESTABLISHMENT. 



Fellows. 

 The number of Fellows and Fellows Elect at the pre- 

 sent time amounts to 1894, of which the following is a 

 summary : — 



Have Compounded, paying £20 . . 332 



Ditto ditto £30 . . 139 



Pay annual contributions of £2 . . 712 



Ditto ditto of£3 . . 573 



Are dormant 127 



Admission Fees unpaid 11 



1894 

 Of this number, 22 have been elected since the last 

 Anniversary, and 4 re-admitted under the provision of the 

 Bye-Laws, Chap. I. sect. 9. The number of resignations 



