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The following Corresponding Members were elected 
during the year :— 
Dr, Julius Von Haast, F.R.S., Director of the Canter- 
bury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand. 
Dr. Franz Steindachner, of the Imperial Zoclogical 
Cabinet, Vienna. 
Mons. Emile Oustalet, of the Muséum histoire naturelle, 
Jardin des Plantes, Paris. 
Herr J. D. E. Schmeltz, Curator of the Godeftroy Museum, 
Hamburg. 
Frederick Elton, Esq., H.B.M. Consul, Mozambique, East 
Africa. 
E. C. Buck, Esq., Director of the Department of Agricul- 
ture and Commerce, Allahabad, N. W. P. India. 
R. Collett, Esq., of Christiania, Norway. 
Dr. Elliott Coues, Surgeon, United States’ Army, Smith- 
sonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
Mr. G. E. Manigault, Curator of the Museum of Natural 
History, Charleston, U.S. A. 
Dr. Odoardo Beccari, of Florence. 
The Rev. George H. A. Fisk, of Breakwater, Cape Town, 
South Africa. 
Edward Albert Liardet, Ksq., Vice-Consul, Samoa, Navi- 
gators’ Island, South Pacific. 
J. A. Allen, Esq., Harvard College, Cambridge, Massa- 
chusetts, U.S. A. 
Dr. A. J. Wall, Surgeon, Bengal Army, General Hospital, 
Calcutta, E. India. 
These elections have raised the total number of the 
Society’s Corresponding Members to 199, being one less 
than the full complement authorized by the By-laws, 
2, STATE OF THE FINANCES. 
a. Income. 
The total Income of the Society received in 1876 was 
£34,955 4s. 1d., exceeding that of the year 1875 (hitherto 
the year in which our receipts have been largest) by 
£6216 12s. 9d.,and being, therefore, by the same amount, 
larger than the receipts of any previous year since the 
Society’s foundation, The main cause of this considerable 
