The corresponding number of Fellows at the close of 

 1888 was 3076. The number of Fellows elected or re- 

 admitted in 1889 was 125, being 3 more than the corre- 

 sponding number in 1888. 



Comparative Statement of Elections, Deaths, Resignations, and Removals 

 during the past Ten Years, with the number of Fellows at the end 



of each Year. 



It will be observed by this table that the number of 

 Fellows has now been slightly decreasing for several years, 

 although it is satisfactory to find that the total for 1889 was 

 only less by one than that of the preceding year. 



The Council, however, venture to suggest to the 

 existing Fellows that it is very desirable that the Society 

 should receive additional support ; and, with a view of 

 enabhng them to propose new Members more easily, 

 have given orders that a prospectus of the Society's 

 objects and a form of proposal shall be circulated along 

 with each copy of the present report. 



b. Honorary Member. 



In recognition of his valuable present of the first spe- 

 cimen of the Indian Bison, or " Sladang," received alive 

 in Europe, Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, K.C.M.G., the 

 Governor of the Straits Settlements, was elected an 

 Honorary Member in 1889. 



