472 



The following Table shows the progress and present state of the Society 

 with respect to the number of Fellows : 



December 5, 1861. 

 Major-General SABINE, R.A., President, in the Chair. 



The President stated that Mr. William Robert Sievier, who was 

 readmitted into the Society on the 17th January, 1856, after 

 having ceased to be a Fellow through default of payment of his 

 annual contribution, had from a similar cause again ceased to be a 

 Fellow in November 1860, and had applied for readmission. Mr. 

 Sievier' s letter to the Council was read, explaining the circumstances 

 under which, during his absence on the Continent, the omission of 

 payment had taken place. The Statute applying to the case was also 

 read, and in accordance therewith notice was given that the question 

 of Mr. Sievier' s readmission would be put to the vote at the next 

 Meeting. 



Mr. Charles Spence Bate was admitted into the Society. 



