ANNUAL MEETING. 



Finance. 



11. The Treasurer's Balance-sheet for the year ending 

 December 31, 1890, duly audited, shows a balance creditor of 

 £28 9s. KM. The amount invested in 2f per Cent. Consols 

 is £1,365 18s. 9d 



In presenting - the accounts, the Council cannot forbear referring 1 to 

 the valuable service rendered to the Institute by one of the 

 Auditors, Mr. Gibbs Orawfurd Harrison, who now retires after- 

 having acted as an Auditor for twenty years. Mr. Harrison's high 

 position in the Pay Department of the Royal Navy peculiarly fitted 

 him for the post he now relinquishes to Mr. J. E. Wakefield, whose 

 public duties have rendered him a not less valuable successor. 



The Council desires to urge the great advantage it would 

 be were Members to remit their (Subscriptions during the 

 first half of the year, as a large proportion already do, Were 

 this the rule with all, the whole machinery of the Institute 

 would work with an ease that would greatly promote its 

 success. Forms for the payment of the Subscriptions 

 through a banker are used by a large number, and may always 

 be had. 



The arrears of subscriptions are as follow : — 



1882. 1883. 1884. 1885. 1886. 1887. 1888. 1889. 



Members .... 33 11 1 2428 



Associates.... 7 1 3 7 10 16 10 16 



10 4 14 8 12 20 12 24 



12. MEETINGS. 



Monday, December 1, 1890.— "A Sketch of the Geological Historv of 

 Egypt and the Nile Valley." By Professor E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 F.G.S., late Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland. 



The results of the surveys of the author and many leading geologists are 

 given, and the paper is all the more valuable considering certain controversies. 



Monday, January 5, 1891.—" On Human Responsibility." By the 

 Right Hon. Lord Grimthorpe. 



Monday, January 19, 1891. — "Notes upon some of the Recent Dis- 

 coveries in the realm of Assyriology with special reference to the 

 private life of the Babylonians." By T. Pinches, Esq., Assis- 

 tant Keeper of Egyptian and Oriental Antiquities at the British 

 Museum. 



Monday, February 2, 1891. — Lecture on " Results of Recent Babylonian 

 Archueology." By W. St. C. Boscawen, Esq., F.R.Hist.Soc. 



