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The pi'eparation of the Supplementary Catalogue of the 

 Library has made considerable progress, and it is hoped that 

 this Catalogue will be ready for issue early iu the present year. 



The financial condition of the Society continues to be 

 exceedingly sound. The Subscriptions received for 1899 are 

 greatly in excess of those for any previous year ; while the 

 amount received in Admission Fees and in payment of Ai-rears 

 is about the same as in the year preceding. A substantial 

 recovery is noticeable in the sale of the Publications of the 

 Society, The Legacy of £100 received from the Executors of 

 the late Mr. Samuel Stevens has been invested in Consols ; 

 and the amount so invested is now £681 IBs, Od., producing 

 £684 12s. lie/. Consols. Four Life Compositions were 

 received during the year; and this amount (£63) has been 

 held over against the expenses of the Supplementary Catalogue 

 of the Library. The balance in hand at the end of 1899 was 

 £181 16s. 8d. ; but this apparently large sum includes the 

 four Life Compositions just referred to, and against it there 

 are to be set Liabilities for about £67 in connection with 

 printing and plates, the exact cost of which could not be 

 ascertained at the close of the year. 



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 17th January, 1900. 



The Balance Sheet and Report of the Council having been 

 unanimously adopted, it was announced that no notice had 

 been sent to the Secretaries proposing to substitute other 

 names for those in the lists prepared by the Council. The 

 following Fellows therefore are elected Members of the Council 

 for the Session 1900—1901 : Charles G. Barrett ; George C. 

 Champion, F.Z.S.; Thomas A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S. ; W. 

 Lucas Distant ; H, St. J, K. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S. ; Charles 

 J. Gahan, M.A. ; F. DuCane Godman, D.C.L., F.R.S. ; A. 

 Hugh Jones; E. Wylie Lloyd; Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; 

 the Hon. Walter Rothschild, D.Sc, M.P., F.Z.S. ; Edward 

 Saunders, F.L.S. ; George H. Yerrall ; and Charles O. Water- 

 hoiise. 



The following are the OflScers elected : Presklevt, Mr. George 



