d. Corresponding Members. 



The following 13 Corresponding Members were elected 

 in 1885 :— 



1. B. F. Ffinch, Esq., of the Persian Gulf Telegraphs, 



Karachee. 



2. Professor H. A. Pagenstecher, of the Natural History 



Museum^ Hamburg. 



3. Lt.-Col. Crawford, Deputy Commissioner, Thar and 



Parker Districts, Hyderabad. 



4. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Secretary to the American 



Ornithologists' Union, Lewis Co., New York. 



5. R. E. Minchin, Esq., Director of the South-Australian 



Zoological and Acclimatization Society. 



6. Professor Gustaf Retzius, M.D., of the Medico- 



Chirurgical Institute, Stockholm. 



7. J. M. Vermont, Esq., of Batu Kawan Estate, Penang. 



8. Surgeon-General Benjamin Simpson, C.B., of the 



Bengal Medical Service. 



9. Captain John Hewat, Dock Superintendent, Cape 



Town. 



10. Frederic Holmwood, Esq., H.B.M. Consul, Zanzibar. 



11. Captain Richard C. Packe. 



12. Dr. A. Boon, F.R.C.S., of Basse Terre, St. Kitts, 



West Indies. 



13. Everard F. im Thurn, Esq., Pomeroon River, British 



Guiana. 



2. State of the Finances. 



a. Income. 



The Council regret to have to announce a considerable 

 falUng off in the Income of the Society during the past 

 year, the total receipts from every head having only 

 amounted to £25,809 10^. 1^. against £28,939 8*. Sd. for 

 the year 1884. 



The several heads under which decrease has taken place 

 are shown in the subjoined Table : — 



