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Family, forthwith admitted His Royal Highness to be a 
Fellow of the Society, and placed his name upon the books. 
Since that time, His Royal Highness has given further 
testimony of his good will towards the Society by con- 
senting to his name being placed on the roll of Members 
as Vice-Patron of the Society, next to that of Her Majesty 
the Queen, the Patroness of the Society. 
It should, however, be mentioned that, in spite of this 
large accession of new Members, some apparent decrease 
in the total number of Fellows of the Society will proba- 
bly appear at the end of the present year, in conse- 
quence of the recent removal of ninety-five names from 
the “ Dormant List.” The “Dormant List” contains the 
names of those Fellows who, residing abroad during the 
whole year, are not, according to the By-Laws, liable to 
pay their annual subscription. Upon a recent examination 
of this list, it was found that a large number of the Fellows 
whose names were upon it had been absent from the 
country for many years, without their addresses being 
known. It appeared to the Council that this was objec- 
tionable, as keeping on the books of the Society the names 
of a large number of individuals many of whom have had 
no intercourse with the Society for a considerable period, 
and concerning whose existence there was no means of ob- 
taining information. The Council, therefore, adopted the 
following regulations relative to the Dormant List of 
Fellows :— 
I, That no Fellow’s name should be kept on the List of 
Dormant Members for a longer period than three 
years, unless the address of his foreign residence 
is known. 
IJ. That any Fellow whose name shall have been 
removed from the Dormant List, in accordance 
with the above resolution, on returning to this 
country and making due explanation, should be 
restored to the List of Fellows upon payment of 
his subscription for the current year. 
Under these regulations, and in execution of the authority 
given them by the By-Laws, the Council, on the 17th of 
February last, removed from the List of Fellows ninety- 
five names of Members who had been “ dormant” for eight 
years and upwards without their addresses being known; 
