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ANNUAL MEETING. 

 January 18th, 1905. 



Professor Edward B. Poultox, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., eto., 

 President, in the Cliair. 



Mr, Robert W. Lloyd, one of the Auditors, read tlie 

 Abstract of the Treasurer's accounts, showing a balance in 

 the Society's favour of <£18 15s. M. 



Mr. Herbert Goss, one of the Secretaries, read the 

 following 



Report of the Council. 



During the Session 1904-1905 five Fellows have died, viz. 

 one Hon. Fellow, Professor Brauer, and four Fellows, Mr. 

 Charles G. Barrett, Mr. R. McLachlan, F.R.S., Mr. E. G. 

 Sparke, and Mr. W. F. Urwick ; seven Fellows have resigned, 

 or have been struck off the list, and thirty-two new Fellows 

 have been elected. 



As was the case last year, the number of Fellows who have 

 died is below the average, as is also the number of those who 

 have resigned, or have been struck off the list ; whilst the 

 number of new Fellows (thirty-two) is nine in excess of the 

 number elected last year. In very few years, if any, of the 

 Society's existence, have thirty-two Fellows been elected in 

 one year. It is hoped that the Fellows will continue their 

 efforts to secure a considerable addition to the Society's list 

 of members, and to promote its increasing prosperity. 



At present the Society consists of eleven Honorary Fellows, 

 and four hundred and ninety-two Life and Subscribing 

 Fellows, making a total of five hundred and three, which, 

 notwithstanding the losses by death, resignations and exclu- 

 sions, is an increase by eighteen on last year's list, and 

 represents a membership greater than in any previous year of 

 the Society's existence of seventy-one years. 



The Transactions for the year 1904 form a volume of 750 

 pages, containing twenty-seven Memoirs, contributed by the 

 following authois : Mr. Gilbert J. Arrow, Professor Christopher 

 Auri villi US, the late Mr. Frederick Bates, with an introduction 



