a 
The following Corresponding Members were elected 
during the year :— 
The Rev. George Brown, of the Wesleyan Mission, Samoa, 
Pacific. 
Capt. Henry Wemyss Feilden, late 42nd Highlanders, 
Naturalist to the Arctic Expedition. 
Dr. Raphael Gestro, Vice-Director of the Museo Civico, 
Genoa, Italy. 
Dr. Hermann Landois, Professor of Zoology, Academy of 
Miinster, Westphalia. 
Mr. R. J. Lechmere Guppy, F.L.S., F.G.S., Superinten- 
dent of Education, Trinidad. 
Mr. William Delisle Powles, of Honda, United States of 
Columbia, U.S.A. 
Dr. Marfels, Conservator of Forests to the King of 
Burmah, Mandalay, Burmah. 
2. STATE OF THE FINANCES. 
a. Income. 
The Income of the Society for the year 1874 was so 
large and beyond all former precedent, that the Council 
could hardly have expected to be able to give a more 
favourable statement for the year 1875. This, however, 
they have now the pleasure of doing. The total receipts 
from last year have again exceeded those of the preceding 
year, though the amount of excess is not very consider- 
able. The income of 1875 amounted on the whole to 
£28,738 11s. 4d., which was more than that of the pre- 
vious year by the sum of £321 6s. 5d., and is the largest 
annual income ever yet received since the Society’s foun- 
dation. Of this excess of income, it will be remarked that 
£246 9s. 11d. is accountable for by the compensation re- 
ceived from the Grand Junction Canal Company for the 
damages caused by the explosion on the Regent’s Canal on 
the 2nd October, 1874. The circumstances of this explo- 
sion were explained in the Council’s last Annual Report, 
and the estimated amount of the damages caused to the 
Society was stated. The Council are pleased to be able to 
inform the Fellows that the whole of this amount has been 
refunded to the Society by the Canal Company. But, 
even when this extraordinary item of receipts is deducted, 
the income of 1875, in spite of many unfavourable circum- 
stances, still shows an increase over that of 1874 by the 
sum of £74 11s. 6d. 
