his Avish to become a Fellow, was, according to former 

 precedents, admitted by the Council by special resolution 

 on the 18th of June last. 



b. Corresponding and Foreign Members. 



Eight Corresponding and one Foreign Member were 

 elected during 1878, namely :— 



Corresponding Members. 



Dr. Heinrich Bolau, Director of the Zoological Garden, 

 Hamburg. 



Capt. Thomas Blakiston, Hakodadi, Japan. 



Henry Durnford, Esq., Buenos Ayres. 



Capt. F. M. Hunter, Assistant Political Resident, Aden. 



Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Director of the Royal Zoolo- 

 gical Museum, Dresden. 



Robert Ridgway, Esq., Smithsonian Institution, Wash- 

 ington, U.S. America. 



w u ^Tir^"' ^^^-' ^^^^ H-B.M. Political Agent, Yarkand. 

 W. H. Wormald, Esq., Honorary Secretary of the Natural 

 History Society, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 



Foreign Member. 



Dr. Franz Steindachner, Director of the Imperial Cabinet 

 of Zoology, Vienna. 



2. State of the Finances. 

 a. Income. 



The universal depression which, during the past year, 

 has so largely affected all trades and industrial under- 

 takings has also, as might have been expected, told 

 heavily upon the Society's Income for 1878. The Receipts 

 for the past year have amounted only to £27,944 6s. lid., 

 and show a decrease of £3043 15*. Sd. as compared with 

 the Receipts of 1877- At the same time, if the average 

 Receipts of the last ten years are taken as a more trust- 

 worthy standard of comparison, it will be found that even 

 during the past year not much permanent ground has 

 been lost, the average Income of the past ten years, in- 



