4 
This large accession of numbers is a source of great 
gratification to the Council, as there can be no better test 
of the great and increasing popularity which attends the 
operations of the Society as at present conducted than 
such a rapid increase in the list of its Members. And on 
examining the subjoined comparative statement of the 
elections and removals that have taken place during the 
preceding ten years, it will be observed that the year 1863, 
although exhibiting a remarkable advance over the pre- 
ceding, can scarcely be considered exceptional in this re- 
spect, as the renewed increase in the number of elections, 
which commenced in 1859 (after a short period of reduc- 
tion), has continued up to the present time, and bids fair 
to go on doing so. 
Comparative Statement of Elections, Deaths, Resignations and Removals 
Years. 
1854, 
1855. 
1856. 
1857. 
1858. 
1859. 
1860. 
1861, 
1862. 
1863. 
during the past Ten years, with the number of Fellows and 
Annual Subscribers at the end of each Year. 
48 Died. Resigned. Removed, 2 = (3 
3-¢ | Compounders. |Subscribers. eee ST ee ls 
gé Subscribers, 3 %°2| Subscribers. r ag fe 2 
) 4og Son 
oa ea Hono- Seal =) See eee 
Bg |€20.)630./ oy. | £2: | £3.) eo. | ¥s, 3 5| 22. | £3. |g "S| 6 Zz 
142 7 4 18 12 7 8 “ 1 1 2 60 
81 ll | 4 18 18 4 18 73 
86 9} 4 18 14 3 17 Be 65 
61 12 2 de 17 18 7 16 3 23 98 
59 | 12 | 5 24 18 1 19 79 
83 13 4 17 16 8 20 a4 ee 78 
98 11 4 20 22 3 19 2 6 16 103 
98 11 7 f 1 19 21 5 23 2 oe 89 
95 6 1 16 24 1 10 1 4 19 7 89 
164 9 4 12 23 3 19 2 8 80 
Amongst the names of those who have joined the Society 
since the last Anniversary, it is with no small degree of 
satisfaction that the Council have to record that of His 
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Shortly after the 
last Anniversary, His Royal Highness, who had mani- 
fested the interest he takes in the Society’s affairs by re- 
peated visits to the Gardens, intimated to the Council 
his desire to become connected with the Society. Upon 
this being understood, the Council, in conformity with 
former precedents established in the case of the Royal 
Fellows 
and Annual 
Subscribers, 
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1736 
1716 
1721 
1716 
1725 
1731 
1815 
December 31. 
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