REPORT. 
THE commencement of another year calls upon the Council 
of the Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land again to submit 
to its Members a Report of the principal events which have - 
influenced its operations during the season, and of its 
general progress and prospects. 
The Monthly Meetings held on the evenings of the 
second Wednesday of each month have been regularly main- 
tained and generally well attended. Several interesting and 
valuable Papers have been produced, and isolated but 
important facts discussed and brought together for record, 
which would otherwise have escaped observation, or at 
best commanded an ephemeral notice. 
The number of Members has increased from 275 to 
about 300, including Honorary and Corresponding Mem- 
bers, and the names of new candidates for Membership 
continue to be presented from month to month,—a fact 
sufficiently indicative of the extent to which the exertions 
of the Society and its success are appreciated.* A list of the 
names of Members will, as usual, be attached to the Report. 
* The total number of Members, exclusive of deaths during the year ending 
31st December, 1852, was 298; since that period 20 new Members have 
been elected, and 20 names of Members who had become hopeless defaulters 
in respect of their subscriptions, either from their having left the Colony or 
from some other cause, have been omitted from the List. 
The number of Corresponding Members is eleven. 
The number of Honorary Members is three. 
There is one Life Member. - 
The number of Members who paid their Subscriptions for 1852 is two 
hundred and six. 
The number of Members who did not pay their Subscriptions for 1852 is 
Jifty-seven. 
There is, therefore, still on the List 40 names of Members ‘‘ who have 
not duly paid up their Subscriptions,” allowance being made for 14 Honorary 
and Corresponding Members, for 1 Life Member, and for 17 other Members 
residing abroad, whose names have been continued. 
