REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



In accordance with the provisions of the Charter, the 

 Council have now the pleasure of presenting to the Society 

 their Twenty-sixth Annual Report. 



I. GENERAL ESTABLISHMENT. 



1. Fellows and Annual Subscribers. 



The number of Fellows, Fellows Elect, and Annual 

 Subscribers at the present time amounts to 1736. Of 

 these, there are 



Compounders, paying £20 279 



Ditto ditto £30 205 



Paying annual contributions of £2 . . 420 



Ditto ditto £3 . . 624 



Dormant 136 



Admission Fees unpaid 21 



Ditto remitted 5 



Annual Subscribers, paying £3 ... 46 



1736 



Of these, 114 have been elected since the last Anniver- 

 sary. 



The number of deaths during the same period has 

 been 48. 



The number of resignations has been 1 7 ; and the re- 

 movals ordered by the Council, in conformity with the 

 Bye-laws of the Society, have been 4. 



The number of Candidates is 21. 



The total number of Fellows has been increased by 45, 

 and now presents, as was anticipated by the Council in 

 their last Report, a full confirmation of the existence of a 

 permanent interest in favour of the Society among the 

 most educated classes. The improvement which has taken 

 place since 1851, notwithstanding deaths, resignations and 

 the removal of defaulters, amounts to no less than 94 



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