10 



Total ordinary members enrolled 169 



Ordinary Members dead 2 



„ „ resigned — Messrs. T. F. 



Anderson, H. Behrend, T. Gray, A. Holt, 

 C. Kirwan, J. M'Cann, N. McLeod, W. H. 



Pearse, and H. W. Shain 9 



Ordinary members removed from the roll — 

 Messrs. F. Archer, J. B. Aspinall, J. T. Danson, 

 De Finance, and F. L. Hodson 5 



— 16 



Total ordinary members at present time 153 



Corresponding members on former list. . . 44 



Elected since then 1 



— 45 

 Dead 2 



— 43 



Total members at opening forty-seventh Session 196 



The volume of " Proceedings" is far advanced, and 

 would have been in the hands of members but for unex- 

 pected delays. 



An important event lias marked the period of the 

 Society's recess — the closure of the labours of the Com- 

 pass Committee, in the formation of which this Society 

 took the initiative. It is a matter of congratulation that 

 their labours have been so highly marked by the govern- 

 ment as to have had their last report ordered to be laid 

 before both houses of parliament. The benefit which has 

 resulted to science and to the mercantile interest by these 

 operations, abundantly proves the value of suggestions 

 and pursuits closely directed to a particular inquiry. 



The donations made to the Society, between the 

 months of Jime, 1856 and 1857, have been duly laid 

 before the meetings and recorded in the minutes. Among 

 these was a very liberal one from the executors and 



