IV ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



Humboldt's Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, presented bv 

 Alfred Tylor, Esq. 



Your C(?mmittee strongly recommend that the Annals and Maga- 

 zine of Natural History be added to the periodicals taken in by the 

 Society, and they would especially direct attention to the list of de- 

 siderata appended to the Annual Report of 1848. 



Signed, G. A. Mantell. 



J. S. Bowerbank. 

 13th February, 1849. Robert Austen. 



Comparative Statement of the Number of the Society at the close of 

 the years 1847 and 1848. 



Dec. 31, 1847. Dec. 31, 1848. 



Compounders 130 131 



Residents 248 233 



Non-residents 445 457 



823 821 



Honorary Members 20 19 



Foreign Members 50 50 



Personages of Royal Blood 4 — 74 4 — 73 



897 894 



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General Statement explanatory of the Alteration in the Number of 

 Fellows, Honorary Members, ^c. at the close of the years 1847 

 and 1848. 



Number of Compounders, Residents and Non-residents, 



December 31, 1847 823 



Add, Fellows elected during former"! Residents 3 



years, and paid in 1848 . . . . j Non-residents . . 2 



Fellows elected, and paid, during 1 Residents 8 



1848 J Non-residents . . 9 



i) 



—17 



22 

 845 



Deduct, Compounder deceased 1 



Residents „ 5 



Non-residents „ 9 



Resigned 9 



— 24 



Total number of Fellows, 31st Dec. 1848, as above . . 821 



