4 
The corresponding number at the close of the year 1868 
was 2924; so that an increase of 42 Members took place 
during the year 1869; and the effective strength of the 
Society is now greater than it has been at any period since 
the year 1840, when the total number of Members was 2994. 
In the subjoined Table is given a comparative statement 
of the Elections, Deaths, Resignations, and Removals which 
have taken place during the past Ten years, together with 
the number of Fellows and Annual Subscribers at the end 
of each year :— 
Pus Died. Resigned. Removed. Sih s a 
8g ; Sai pmeremsro ee 
2 4 Compounders, Subscribers, | Subscribers. = ae Subscribers. |.2 ais 3 S|5 2s 53 
a3 fanbe ee2/, | eeurerEss 
Fag | £20, | £30. |o eh £2, | £3, | £2. |- £3. 3 p| 2. | 8. |e plo A Bag 
93 11 4 on 20 22 3 19 2 6 16 vs» [108 1716 
98 1 7 id 19 21 5 23 2 AS tw sla 89 |}. 1725 
95 6 1 16 24 1 10 1 4 19 7 89 1731 
164 9 4 12 23 3 19 2 a8 ass 8 80 1815 
264 4 8 21 22 2 9 ees 24 71 see. [ROL 1918 
321 12 5 13 23 5 16 2 1 19 96 2143 
405 16 11 1B 28 1 18 3 | 89 2459 
328 ll 9 12 25 4 16 8 85 2702 
316 3 9 7 33 2 28 2 vee | O4 2924 
197 7 7 17 37 3 30 1 2 25 26 {155 2966 
b. Foreign and Corresponding Members. 
No vacancy occurred in the list of Foreign Members 
during the year 1869. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected Corresponding 
Members of the Society during the past year, and the total 
number of members of this class was thus raised to 195 on 
the 31st of December last :— 
Dr. Charles Semper, of Wirzburg. 
Mr. John Denis Macdonald, Surgeon R.N., F.R.S. 
Mr. John Brazier, of Sydney, N. S. W. 
Mr. John S. Guy, of Callao, Peru. 
Dr. A. Ernst, President of the Society of Physical and 
Natural Sciences, Caraccas. : 
Dr. Francis Hilgendorf, Director of the’ Zoological Gardens 
of Hamburg. P 
Mr. Robert B. White, of Medelliu, United States of Co- 
lumbia. 
