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ANNUAL MEETING. 



January 15th, 1890, 



The Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



An abstract of the Treasurer's accounts was read by Dr. 

 Sharp, one of the Auditors. 

 Mr. H. Goss, one of the Secretaries, read the following : — 



Report of the Council. 



In accordance with the Bye-Laws, the Council begs leave 

 to present the following Report : — 



During the year 1889 four Fellows have died, viz., Mr. 

 Frederick Bond, Colonel C. J. Cox, Mons. J. C. Puis, and 

 Dr. Victor Signoret ; two Fellows have resigned ; four Fellows 

 have been struck out of the list for non-payment of their 

 subscriptions ; and twenty-four new Fellows have been elected. 



The number of Fellows elected during the year, although 

 above the average, is not so large as it should have been. 

 With the exceptionally low subscription of £1 Is. a year, the 

 Society is in need of a much larger number of Fellows to 

 enable it to publish more papers, and in other ways to advance 

 its interests and promote its objects ; and the Council again 

 begs leave to urge the Fellows to do their utmost to induce 

 their friends to join the Society, and thus increase its revenue. 



At the present time the Society consists of an Hon. Life- 

 President, 10 Honorary Fellows, 48 Life Fellows, and 258 

 paying the Annual Subscription, making the total number of 

 Fellows now on the Society's List 317, which, after allowing 

 for the losses by deaths, resignations, and exclusions, is an 

 increase in number of 14 since the date of the Annual Meeting 

 last year. 



The Transactions for the year 1889 form a volume of 

 592 pages, containing 23 memoirs contributed by the following 

 20 authors, viz., the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, F.R.S.; 

 Dr. Sharp (2 papers) ; the Rev. F. A. Walker, D.D. ; Mr. 

 Frederic Merrifield ; Mr. J. H. Leech, B.A. ; the Rev. T. A. 



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