72 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOCUCAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Friday, 12Tn February, 1904. 



E. A. Smith, I.S.O., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. F. Gr. Bridgman and Mr. Alexander Reynell were appointed 

 scrutineers. 



The following report was read : — 



" Your Council, in presenting their eleventh Annual Eeport, are 

 again able to record another year of satisfactory progress. 



During the past twelve months seven new members have been 

 elected. On the other hand, the Society has lost ten members : one. 

 Dr. 0. F. von Moellendorff, by death, eight by resignation, and one 

 under the provisions of Rule X. 



The membership of the Society on December 31st, 1903, stood as 

 follows : — 



Ordinary members S8 



Corresponding members 77 



Total 165 



On the same date in 1902 the total membership was 168, and in 

 1901, 171. 



Your Council have, with much regret, to report a serious loss to the 

 Society in the retirement of Mr. B. B. Woodward from the editorship, 

 a post which he has held, with marked ability and to the great 

 advantage of the Society, since its foundation. 



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

 payment of all liabilities, there is a balance of £35 2s. in the 

 Treasurer's hands, whilst the sum of £50 still remains invested in 

 Metropolitan 2J per cent. Stock. 



Since the last Annual General Meeting three more numbers of the 

 ' Proceedings ' have been issued, completing Vol. V, comprising 

 pages 257 to 416, title-page, contents, and index, with nine plates 

 and numerous illustrations in the text. 



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

 a portion of the cost of illustration, or have assisted by furnishing 

 drawings :— Dr. W. T. Blanford, C.I.E., R. H. Burne, G. C. Crick, 

 Sir C. N. E. Eliot, K.C.M.G.. Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, 

 G. K. Gude, J. Cosmo Melvill, R. Murdoch, R. B. I^Tewton, H. B. 

 Preston, E. A. Smith, I.S.O., Messrs. Sowerby &: Fulton, E. R. 

 Sykes, and J. H. Van Stone. 



