106 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOIOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Friday, llxn February, 1898. 



Professor G. B. Howes, LL.D., F.R.S., etc., Vice-President, iu the Chair. 



Mr. A. S. Kennarcl and Mr. H. B. Preston were appointed Scrutineers. 

 The following lleport was read : — 



'' Your Council, in presenting their fifth Annual Report, have to 

 chronicle a year of steady progress. 



Tlie Membership of the Society continues to increase, and the roll 

 on December 3 1st stood as follows : — 



Ordinary members 96 



Corresponding members 77 



Total 173 



the totals for the two preceding years having been 162 in 1896, and 

 158 in 1895. 



During the past year sixteen new Members have been elected, and 

 five have resigned. It is pleasant not to have to record any death 

 amongst the Members. One Member has been transferred from the 

 Corresponding to the Ordinary list, while two candidates awaited 

 election at the close of the year. 



The finances of the Society are still in a flourishing condition. 

 Afterpayment of all liabilities there remains a balance of £26 17s. Id. 

 in the Treasurer's hands. In addition to the above, the sum of £50 

 still remains invested in Metropolitan 2J per cent, stock. 



The Presidential Address was delivered on February 12th. 1897, 

 and twenty- seven communications by fourteen authors have also been 

 made to the Society. 



Since the last Annual General Meeting three more numbers of the 

 ' Proceedings ' have been issued, forming the completion of Vol. II, 

 and comprising 182 pages, including the index, title-page, contents, 

 and list of illustrations ; and containing seven plates and numerous 

 illustrations in the text. 



Your thanks are due to the following Members, who have borne 

 a large proportion of the cost of the illustrations, or who have assisted 

 by furnishing drawings : Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin- Austen, W. T. 

 Bednall, W. E. CoUinge, J. Cosmo MelviU, E. Murdoch, H. M. Phipson, 

 J. H. Ponsonby, E. A. Smith, H. Suter, and E. K. Sykes. 



Further, your thanks are specially due to the Council of the 

 Linnean Society, through whose kindness the Society has, as in 

 previous years, been permitted to hold its meetings in Burlington 

 House. 



Your Council have to regret the serious loss which the Society has 

 sustained in the retirement of Mr. E. H. Sykes from the post of 

 Honorary Secretary, which he has so ably filled since the foundation 

 of the Society." 



