REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
April 29, 1870. 
Iw accordance with the provisions of the Society’s Charter, 
the Council have now the pleasure of submitting to the ap- 
probation of the Fellows assembled in their forty-first 
Anniversary Meeting the customary Report upon the pro- 
gress of the Society during the past year. 
This, in conformity with former practice, they have 
divided into three heads, the first of which relates to the 
general state of the Society, the second to the operations 
carried on at the office in Hanover Square, and the last to 
the state of the establishment in the Regent’s Park. 
I. GENERAL CONDITION OF THE SOCIETY. 
1. STATE OF THE ROLL OF MEMBERS. 
a. Fellows and Annual Subscribers. 
The number of Fellows, Eellows Elect, and Annual 
Subscribers at the close of the year 1869 amounted to 
2966. Of these there were— 
Compounders who have paid £20. . . 137 
Ditto ditto £30 “an. 620 
Paying annual contributions of £2 . . . 139 
Ditto ditto eee. ge 
Dormant 2uER ese! Sip eames 58 
Admission-fees unpaid . . . . . . .) 4 
Compositions remitted . . . eee ees 
Annual Subscribers, paying Ba, .pindenoting 
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