PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAX SOCIETT. 79 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Fkidat, February 9th, 1894. 



Dr. H. "WooDWAKD, F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



H. W. Monckton and Col. Wilmer were appointed Scrutineers. 



The following Report of the Council for the year 1893 was read : — 

 "Your Council in presenting their first Annual Report have to 

 congratulate the Society on the position and numerical strength 

 attained in the short time which has elapsed since its foundation. 



Inaugurated on the 27th of February, 1893, with seventy original 

 members, its strength on the 31st of December stood as follows : 



Ordinary members ......92 



Corresponding members ------.....34 



Total - - - 126 



Ten candidates, who have since been elected, were nominated at the 

 December meeting. 



It is gratifying to record the large number of corresponding 

 members, nearly one-half of whom are Australasian, enrolled during 

 the past year, thus indicating a widespread sympathy with the objects 

 of the Society. 



The Society has to deplore the loss of the eminent malacologist 

 Dr. Paul Fischer, by death : one member has resigned. 



The total receipts up to the 31st December amount to £63 2*. Od., 

 including one life composition, £7 7s. 0^. ; whilst the total expenditure 

 for the same period amounts to £28 5s. Od., thus leaving a balance 

 in the hands of the Treasurer of £34 17s. Od. To this sum must be 

 added the subscriptions in arrear, amounting to £11 15s. 6^., making 

 a total of £46 12s. 6d. in favour of the Society. 



With reference to the comparatively large number of subscriptions 

 in arrear it should be remarked that they chiefly refer to members 

 elected during the last month of the year, many of whom reside abroad 

 and have had no opportunity of remitting their subscriptions prior to 

 the closing of the accounts. 



A certain number of copies of Part I. of the ' Proceedings ' have 

 been kept in stock, and your Council regard this as a valuable asset. 

 There are no outstanding liabilities against the Society of any kind 

 whatsoever. 



This result cannot be regarded otherwise than as extremely satis- 

 factory, and it may be pointed out that had the receipts extended over 

 one year, instead of ten months only, a still larger balance in favour 

 of the Society might reasonably have been anticipated. 



One number of the ' Proceedings ' of the Society has been issued. 



VOL. I. — jrxE, 1S94. 6 



