268 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Feidat, 12th Febrtjaky, 1909. 

 B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. E. W. Bowell and Mr. W. M. Webb were appointed 

 scrutineers. 



The following report was read : — 



"Your Council, in presenting their sixteenth Annual Report, are 

 again able to record a year of progress. 



During the past twelve months five new members have been elected. 

 By death we have lost three members, Professor Spiridion Brusina, 

 a worker whose reputation is worldwide, Mr. W. H. Hudleston, and 

 Mr. F. C. Crawford. Five members have resigned, and the names of 

 three others have been removed from the list according to Rule X, 



The membership of the Society on December 31st, 1908, stood as 

 follows : — 



Ordinary members . 78 



Corresponding members ...... 83 



Total . . .161 



At the end of the year 1907 the total membership was 167, and of 

 1906, 164. 



The financial condition of the Society is not so satisfactory as in 

 previous j-ears, and although not such as to cause uneasiness, calls for 

 the attention of members. The balance-sheet shows an adverse balance 

 of £3 lis. '6d.^ ; but, on the other hand, £10 10s. has been added to the 

 special fund to which it was lately decided that entrance and com- 

 position fees should be credited, instead of being merged as heretofore 

 in the annual income ; while, in addition, the Society still holds the 

 sum of £50 invested in Metropolitan 2k per cent, stock. 



Since the last Annual Meeting three parts of the ' Proceedings ' 

 have been issued as usual, forming the first half of the eighth volume. 

 They consist of 191 pages of text, 7 plates, and 35 text-figures. 



The Society is indebted to the following gentlemen who have kindly 

 contributed towards the cost of the plates and other illustrations, or 

 have furnished drawings for reproduction: — Colonel R. H. Beddome, 

 the Rev. E. W. Bowell, A. J. Jukes-Browne, R. Bullen Newton, 

 Professor H. A. Pilsbry, H. B. Preston, A. Reynell, E. A. Smith, 

 G. B. Sowerby, H. Suter, and B. B. Woodward. It is only through 

 such kind help that the ' Proceedings' can be so fully illustrated. 



Further, the thanks of the Society are especially due to the Council 

 of the Linnean Society, through whose kindness it has been permitted, 

 as in previous years, to hold its meetings in Burlington House." 



1 Through the kindness of certain members this deficit has since been cancelled. 



