the two Secretaries. As the result of the inquiries made by your 

 Committee, they would suggest that the addition should be 95, 

 raising each gratuity from 1 05 to .200. This would involve an 

 increase of 190 in the expenditure. 



" The relations of the Society with foreign countries may be 

 largely extended, and your Committee are of opinion that to accom- 

 plish this object <80 may be advantageously added to the 20 now 

 voted, making the annual gratuity of the Foreign Secretary 100. 



" The total augmentation of the expenditure under this arrange- 

 ment would be 270, leaving a probable annual surplus of 400 to 

 be devoted to the numerous purposes which fall naturally within the 

 scope of the Society's inquiries. 



" Your Committee are of opinion that the offices efficiently dis- 

 charged will still be to a great extent honorary ; arid that so long as 

 the Society is so fortunate as to have able, industrious, and eminent 

 men as its Secretaries it will be still largely in their debt. 



" Should the finances of the Society, through any unforeseen cir- 

 cumstance, require it, there would not, your Committee apprehend, 

 be any difficulty in again revising the scale of gratuities which may 

 be awarded." 



The recommendations of the Committee regarding the augmenta- 

 tion of the gratuities have been adopted by the Council ; and the 

 view taken by the Committee of the financial condition of the Society 

 has been thus far confirmed by an excess in the present year of in- 

 come over expenditure (the increased gratuities being included in the 

 latter) of 742 2s. 



3. Duties of the Foreign Secretary. The Council having thus 

 augmented the honorarium of the Foreign Secretary, have had 

 under their consideration the advantage which the Society might 

 derive from an extension of the duties of the Foreign Secretary as 

 hitherto defined by the Statutes, and have made additions to those 

 duties under the three following heads, viz. : 



" 1. To prepare the Biographical Notices of deceased Foreign 

 Members for publication in the c Proceedings.' 



" 2. To collect such information respecting the labours and disco- 

 veries of Foreign Men of Science as may serve to aid the Council in 

 the nomination of persons for election by the Society as Foreign 

 Members, and in the award of the Copley and Rumford Medals. 



