interfere uitli the utilization of the frontage and premises 

 in Oxford Street, uhich, as the Council are assured, are 

 likely to return a very good rate of interest upon the 

 amount expended in their purchase. 



2. Scientific Meetings. 



To the fourteen meetings for the despatch of scientific 

 business held in the Society's Rooms in Hanover Square in 

 1881, 121 communications were made. Of these, 8.3 were 

 from Fellows, 1 from Foreign Members, and 15 from 

 Corresponding Members of the Society. The remaining 

 22 papers were from individuals not belonging to the 

 Society, and were communicated to it by the Secretary 

 or by other Members. The corresponding number of com- 

 munications in the year 1880 was 131. 



These communications were submitted to the Committee 

 of Publication, by whom the following orders were made 

 respecting them : 2 were ordered to be printed entire 

 in the 'Transactions' of the Society, and 99 in the 'Pro- 

 ceedings,' such illustrations being in each case allowed as 

 the Committee considered necessary for the purpose. Of 

 the remaining communications, abstracts or extracts were 

 considered to be sufficient for publication. 



3. Scientific Publications. 



The volume of * Proceedings ' for 1881 (copies of 

 which are on the table) contains a number of important 

 papers, and is above the average as regards dimen- 

 sions and the number of its illustrations, as will be seen 

 from the following table, in which are given the number 

 of pages and plates of the volumes of ' Proceedings ' for 

 the past ten years : — 



1872 . . 



1873 . . 



1874 . . 



1875 . . 



1876 . . 



1877 . . 



1878 . . 



1879 . . 



1880 . . 



1881 . . 



