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and an apparent (though not real) decrease in the total 
strength of the Society has been thus occasioned. 
The number of Deaths since the last Anniversary has 
been 61; the number of Resignations has been 13; and 
8 Members have been removed from the roll under the 
By-Laws for non-payment of their debts due to the Society. 
The present number of candidates for admission is 30, 
making a total of 96 additions to the list of Fellows since 
the 1st of January of the present year. 
2. ForEIGN AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
One Foreign Member only has been elected by the 
Society since the last Anniversary, namely, Dr. Herman 
Burmeister, late of Halle, now Director of the Museum of 
Buenos Ayres, the addition of whose name makes the 
number of 25 Foreign Members authorized by the By- 
Laws complete. 
Thirteen Corresponding Members have been elected 
during the same period, namely :— 
Joshua Alder, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 
William Henry Ashmall, Esq., Cameroons River, West 
Africa. 
Capt. R. H. Beddome, Official Conservator of Forests, 
Madras. 
Edward Drinker Cope, Esq., Philadelphia. 
William Dunn, Esq., Civil Engineer, Akyab. 
Henry Gighioli, Esq., Villa Chiti, Pisa, Italy. 
Ronald Gunn, Esq., Launceston, Tasmania. 
Albany Hancock, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 
The Baboo Rajendra Mullick, Calcutta. 
Colonel George Ramsay, C.B., Resident at the Court of 
Nepal. 
Odo William Leopold Russell, Esq., of H.M. Diplomatic 
Service. s 
M. Auguste Sallé, 13 Rue Guy de la Brosse, Paris. 
Lieut.-Col, Patrick Stewart, Royal Engineers. 
3. INcoME. 
After the very large sum received by the Society during 
the Exhibition year of 1862, it could hardly have been 
expected that the Income of the year 1863 would have 
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