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Annual RejJort. 



[Feb. 



The table below shows the fluctuations of members during the last ten 

 years, and it will be observed that the number of effective members in the 

 year under report is larger than in any of the preceding years. 



Year. 



Paying. 



Absent. 



Total. 







Resident. 



Non-Kesi- 

 dent. 



Non-pay- 

 ing. 





1865 



267 



136 



131 



109 



376 



1866 



293 



124 



169 



94 



387 



1867 



307 



154 



153 



109 



416 



1868 



294 



159 



135 



133 



427 



1869 



304 



162 



142 



138 



442 



1870 



266 



134 



132 



148 



414 



1871 



286 



112 



174 



160 



446 



1872 



279 



105 



172+2 L.M. 



159 



438 



1873 



305 



116 



186+3 L.M. 



53 



358 



1874 



312 



140 



169 + 3 L.M. 



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344 



Among those who have been lost to the Society by death, the Council 

 have to record with great regret the names of Dr. Stoliczka, late Natural 

 History Secretary of the Society, Dr. Bhau Daji of Bombay, Dr. H. B. 

 Buckle, A. Bond, Esq., and Babu Pulin Behary Sen, a Zemindar of Berham- 

 pore. 



The election of Col. G. A. Searle was cancelled at his own request. 



Indian Museum. 



The Council continue to carry out the provisions of Act XVII of 1866 

 and transfer all Natural History and Archaeological specimens received by 

 them to the Trustees of the Indian Museum. 



The Trustees on the part of the Society were Mr. W. S. Atkinson, 

 Col. H. Hyde, Col. J. E. Gastrell, and Mr. J. Geoghegan. 



Finance. 



The Financial position of the Society, the Council are happy to report, 

 continues in a satisfactory state ; for, with the exception of one item, the 

 receipts from all sources shew considerable increase. 



The only falling off is in the item of house-rent, but this is easily ex- 

 plained by the circumstance that last year an accumulation of arrears on 

 this account, amounting to Rs. 12,916, were realized and shown in the account 

 under the head of "Building," while this year the income from this source 

 has only been the regular monthly allowance of lis. 400 per mensem, or 

 Bs. 4,800. 



The only item of expenditure requiring special notice is the sum of 

 lis. 1,134 for repairing some of the most valuable paintings in the Society's 



