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the Society is bringing out. These figures show that the Society's assets are 

 Rsi 2,549-1-2 less than they were a year ago. The total receipts during the year 

 amounted to Rs. 33,622-8, Rs. 144-12-8 less than they were for the year 1919. 

 The total expenditiu-e for 1920 amounted to Rs. 36,171-9-2, an increase of Rs. 

 1,974-10-6 over the corresponding figures for the previous year. Considering 

 the rise in the scale of wages and prices generally, this increase in expenditure 

 is not excessive. At the begirming of the year under review there were 1,821 

 members on the Society's books. Since that time 1 12 new members have joined 

 and two former members, who had resigned, have rejoined. On the other hand, 

 89 members have either resigned or died, the result being that on the 1st of 

 January this year there were 1 ,846 members on the books. Included in this 

 figure, however, are 179 members who have not paid their subscriptions for 

 four years or over and these will now be written off. This means that the 

 number of members at the beginning of this j^ear is actually onlv 1,667. 

 During the past few months members have received a circular from the' Honor- 

 ary Secretary asking for approval to the subscription and entrance fe.s being 

 raised and explaining that a considerable increase in the actual cost of the 

 Journal and the Society's proposed new pubUcations over then* estimated cost is 

 anticipated. There is no necessity, therefore, for me to refer again to these 

 matters. 



With regard to the accounts for the Mammal Fund. — On the 1st of January 

 1920, the balance to the credit of the fund was Rs. 7,239-2-5 in addition to which 

 Rs. 5,150 was held invested in Port Trust Bonds. The balance at the close 

 of the year, in addition to this investment, amounted to Rs. 3,627-10-10 only. 

 The receipts during the year amounted to Rs. 4,284-3-10 against Rs. 8,154-10-4 

 received dming the year 1919. On the other hand the expenditure in 1920 

 amounted to Rs. 7,895-11-5 against Rs. 4,449-15-1, the corresponding figure for 

 1919. 



Valuable work continues to be done by the survey for which this fund was 

 raised. One collector has been working for the past year in Assam. Survey 

 work has also been done in Persia and is now being done in Nepal. Arrangements 

 have been made to secure the services of two other collectors in view of the 

 decision of the Indian Government to revise the Fauna of British India series 

 and the consequent necessity of obtaining all the information possible for 

 the books of this series deahng with the mammalia. These arrangements 

 cannot be carried out without money, and, as aheady pointed out, expendi- 

 ture from the fund last year exceeded the receipts by Rs. 3,611-7-7; at this rate 

 of progress the present balances will be exhausted in less than three months. 

 It is, therefore, to be hoped that sufficient donations to this fund will be 

 f orthcoming to enable the present programme to be completed. 



ALTERATIONS IN RULES. 



The following alterations to existing rules were then passed by a majority of 

 555 votes to 35 : — 



Rule 4.— Members shall pay an entrance fee of Rs. 20, and an annual subscrip- 

 tion of Rs. 25 payable in advance. The first annual subscription of members 

 elected during the months of October, November and December, shall be con- 

 sidered to extend to the 31st of December, in the following year. If any member's 

 subscription remains unpaid for more than six months, liis name shall be hablo 

 to be removed from the list of members after due notice has been sent to him by 

 the Secretary. 



Rule 5.— Any member may, on payment of Rs. 350, become a hfe-member 

 and will thereafter be exempt from any further subscriptions. 



A Rider authorising the Committee to accept payment of the old J^e-mem- 

 bership subscription from members who had joined before 1st March 1921 was 

 also oassed. 



