REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
April 29, 1874. 
Tur Council have now the pleasure of submitting to the 
approbation of the Fellows their forty-fifth 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. STATE OF THE ROLL or MEMBERS. 
a. Fellows and Annual Subscribers. 
The number of Fellows, Fellows Elect, and Annual 
Subscribers at the close of the year 1873 amounted to 
3173. Of these there were :— 
Compounders who have paid £20. . . 114 
Ditto ditto B50 ccs te dee 
Compositions remitted . . . . 17 
Paying annual contributions of £2 . . . 103 
Ditto ditto £3 ocaets 2082 
Dormant oN 14 ~aitbede 6 Rae 
Adimission-fees unpaid . ..} =) -)) «+. 4/ 146 
Annual Subscribers, paying £3 . . . . 12 
3173 
The corresponding total of Fellows, Fellows Elect, 
and Annual Subscribers on the 31st of December 1872 
was 3050. The following is 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 :— 
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