Annual Report of the Council. 



Annual Report of the Council, April, 1890. 



The number of members on the roll on the 31st March, 

 1890, is 141, or 9 more than at the corresponding period of 

 the previous year. The Society has lost one ordinary 

 member by resignation, and four by death; and fourteen 

 new ordinary members have been elected. The Council 

 has much satisfaction in stating that for the first time for 

 some years the numbers have increased, but would point 

 out that a considerable further extension in the membership 

 of the Society is greatly to be desired. 



The Treasurer reports that the various accounts show 

 balances at the credit of each on the 31st March, 1890, and 

 that the cash balance lying at the bank at the same date is 

 £277. 5s. iod., or £$%. 2s. 4d. less than on the 1st April, 

 1889. The tabulation of the revenue and expenditure of 

 the Society is shown by the accompanying balance sheets, 

 the figures of the previous session being appended for 

 comparison. 



The several items of expenditure included therein need 

 little explanation. A selection of a portion of the apparatus 

 used by the late Dr. Dalton in his historic investigations 

 has been displayed in suitable glass cases affixed to the 

 walls of the Library, at a cost of £24.. 14s. od. In the 

 publishing account will be noticed the reappearance of a 

 former item, viz., the honorarium of £50. os. od. for edit- 

 ing the Society's publications ; in asking the Editor's 

 acceptance of this sum, the Council put on record its grate- 

 ful acknowledgements of the able and gratuitous services 

 rendered to the Society from the time when Mr. F. J. 

 Faraday first undertook the oversight of its publications. 

 The Library has had spent upon it, for binding books, the 



