100 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 Friday, 9th February, 1900. 

 W. T. Blanforu, LL.D., F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. W. M. Webb and Mr. S. Pace were appointed Scrutineers. 

 The following Report was read : — 



"Your Council, in presenting their seventh Annual Report, Lave 

 once more to record a year of steady progress. 



The membership of the Society shows a marked increase, and the 

 roll on December 3 1 st stood as follows : 



Ordinary members 94 



Corresponding members 82 



Total 176 



the totals for the two preceding years being 168 in 1898, and 173 in 

 1897. 



During the past year two members have resigned ; while the Society 

 has further to deplore the loss of one of its members by death. The 

 Society has thus lost three members, while eleven new members have 

 been elected; one candidate awaited election at the close of the year. 



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

 payment of all liabilities there remains a balance of £24 4s. bd. in the 

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

 Metropolitan 2h per cent, stock. 



The President's address was delivered on February 10th, 1899, and 

 twenty-eight communications, attributable to twenty 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 second half of Vol. Ill, 

 comprising 168 pages, including the index, title-page, contents, and 

 list of illustrations for the whole volume, and containing six plates and 

 numerous illustrations in the text. 



Your thanks are due to the following, who have borne a proportion 

 of the cost of illustrations, or who have assisted by furnishing 

 drawings : — Dr. W. T. Blanford, the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, 

 R. H. Burne, S. I. Da Costa, H. Fulton, A. S. Kennard, J. Cosmo 

 Melvill, J. E. S. Moore, R. Murdock, J. H. Ponsonby, E. A. Smith, 

 G-. 15. Sowerby, H. Suter, E. R. Sykes, W. M. Webb, R. B.Woodward, 

 and M. F. Woodward. 



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

 Linnean Society, through whose kindness the Society has been 

 permitted, as in previous years, to hold its meetings in Burlington 

 House. 



Your Council have to regret the serious loss which the Society 

 has sustained iu the retirement of Mr. (1. F. Harris from the post 

 of Hon. Treasurer, which he has so ably filled since the foundation 

 of the Society." 



The foregoing Report was put to the meeting from the Chair, 

 and adopted as the Annual Report of the Society. 



