REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
April 29, 1873. 
Tae Council have now the pleasure of submitting to the 
approbation of the Fellows their forty-fourth Annual 
Report upon the progress of the Society. 
This, in conformity with former Reports, they have 
divided into three heads, the first of which relates to the 
general condition of the Society, the second to the opera- 
tions 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. Stave or THE Rout or MEMBERS. 
a. Fellows and Annual Subscribers. 
The number of Fellows, Fellows Elect, and Annual 
Subscribers at the close of. the year 1872 amounted to 
3050. Of these there were :— 
Compounders who have paid £20. . . 119 
Ditto ditto 30-5 P's Py o, OOF 
Compositions remitted, . oy%. 4.0% Ww yb 
Paying annual contributions of £2. . . 109 
Ditto ditto ae of" = eis OO 
Dormant ee on 2, ey 78 
Admission-fees unpaid . . Bit Pacts. C8 
Annual Subscribers, paying Ba ass Paes 
3050 
The corresponding total of Fellows, Fellows Elect, 
and Annual Subscribers on the 31st of December 1871 
was 3047. The following is a comparative statement of 
the Elections, Deaths, Resignations, and Removals which 
have taken place during the past Ten years, together with 
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