ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS 



^oxxib Joiibon (L-ntomo!ogira( anb |Vahira( I)istori| 

 By W. J. Kaye, f.e.s. 



Read January 25tli, 1912. 



AYEAE has passed since I was before you with an address — a 

 year that will be a memorable one in the annals of our 

 Society. We have at last, after much discussion, raised the 

 price of our membership to newcomers, and we all hope that the 

 result will be satisfactory. The treasurer will have a little less 

 arduous task in meeting the heavy demands of the publication fund, 

 and our balance sheet in the future, we may hope, may be more 

 satisfactory than it has been for a year or two past. Our Pro- 

 ceedings in recent years have been out of all proportion to an annual 

 subscription of seven and sixpence, and although we have raised 

 the price to new members to ten shillings per annum, the Pro- 

 ceedings Avill still need some generous help from the band of sub- 

 scribers who have so ungrudgingly given in the past. 



The report of the treasurer is, unfortunately, not quite satis- 

 factory, but with the increased subscriptions our financial state- 

 ment a year hence, we must hope, will show a balance on the credit 

 side. The report of the Council is quite satisfactory, and speaking 

 generally the Society seems to gain fresh life with increasing years. 

 The average attendance is again at 34 ; the maximum being 103 at 

 the Exhibition of Varieties on November 23rd. The summer indoor 



