11 



Drummond. Ot tins amount £1000 will be paid off on 

 the 6th of June in every year; so that at the end of twelve 

 years the Society will be completely free from debt and in 

 possession of an unencumbered freehold estate of not much 

 less than £25,000 in value. 



2. Scientific Meetings. 

 To the thirteen meetings for the despatch of scientific 

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

 lb^5, 10.3 communications were made. Of these 66 

 were from Fellows and 12 from Corresponding IVIembers 

 of the Society. The remaining 25 papers were from 

 individuals not belonging to the Societv, and were com- 

 municated to It by the Secretary or by other Members. 

 188^'''*^^''''""° """ * °f ^^"^^"nications in the year 



These communications were submitted to the Committee 

 of Pubhcation, by whom the following orders were made 

 respecting them : 2 were ordered to be printed entire 

 in the 'Transactions' of the Society, and 6; 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 sufhcient for publication. 



3. Scientific Publications. 



The volume of 'Proceedings' for 1883 is on the table 

 It contains / 04 pages illustrated by 61 plates. In the 

 folio wing table are given the number of pages and plates 

 of the volumes of 'Proceedings' for the past eleven 



1873 



1874 

 1875 

 1876 



1877 



1878 

 1879 



1880 



1881 

 1882 

 1883 



plates. 

 69 

 84 

 72 

 82 

 85 

 62 

 64 

 64 

 72 

 61 

 61 



pages 

 842 

 728 

 726 

 864 

 893 

 1056 

 868 



74:i 



1056 



827 

 704 



