PROCEEDINGS OF TUE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 239 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



Feidat, 12Tn Febeuary, 1897. 



Prof. G. B. Howes, Sec.L.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. F. Crawford and Mr. "W. M. "Webb were appointed scrutineers. 



The following Eeport was read : — 



" Your Council, in presenting tlieir fourth Annual Report, have to 

 detail a year of steady progress. 



The Membership of the Society continues to increase, and the roll 

 on December 31st stood as follows : — 



Ordinary members 95 



Corresponding members 67 



Total 162 



as against 158 in 1895, and 153 in 1894. 



During the past year eleven new Members have been elected, five 

 have resigned, and two, namely Mons. A. Brot and Herr 13. Schmacker, 

 have been removed by death. One M ember has been transf eiTcd from 

 the Ordinary to the Corresponding list ; while two candidates awaited 

 election at the close of the year. 



Your Council think it may be of interest to place on record the 

 Geographical Distribution of the Corresponding Members, which is 

 as follows : Europe 20, Australasia 24, North America and West 

 Indies 9, India and Ceylon 6, South Africa 5, and one each in Egypt, 

 the Philippines, and the Hawaiian Islands. 



The finances of the Society are still in a flourishing condition. 

 After payment of all liabilities there remains a balance of £29 4s. Id. 

 in the Treasurer's hands. The sum of £50 placed on deposit at our 

 Bankers, as announced in last year's Report, has been withdrawn, and 

 the sum of £52 6s. 3f/. expended in the purchase of £50 Metropolitan 

 2h per cent, stock. 



The Presidential Address was delivered on February 14th, 1896, and 

 twenty-seven communications by seventeen authors have also been 

 made to the Society. 



Since the last Annual General ^Meeting three more numbers 

 of the ' Proceedings ' have been issued, forming the first portion of 

 Yol. II, and comprising 136 pages with ten plates and numerous 

 illustrations in the text. Anotlier part is in course of preparation. 



Your thanks are due to the folljwing gentlemen, who have borne 

 a large proportion of the cost of the illustrations, or have assisted by 

 furnishing the drawings : R. H. Burne, W. E. Collinge, G. C. Crick, 

 "\Y. Garstang, G. Gilson, G. K. Gude, J. C, Melvill, E. A. Smith, 

 G. B. Sowerby, H. Suter, and E. R. Sykes. 



Further, your thanks are specially due to the Council of the Linnean 

 Society, through whose kindness the Society has, as in previous years, 

 been pennitted to hold its meetings in Burlington House." 



