﻿ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



February 18th, 1916. 



Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Report of the Council for 1915. 



During the } r ear under review, 31 new Fellows were elected into 

 the Society (6 less than in 1914). Of the Fellows elected in 

 1915, 23 paid their Admission Fees before the end of that year, 

 and of the Fellows who had been elected in the previous year, 

 8 paid their Admission Fees in 1915, making the total accession 

 of new Fellows during the past year amount to 31 (14 less than 

 in 1914). 



Allowing for the loss of S7 Fellows (22 resigned, 42 deceased, 

 and 23 removed from the List, under Bye-Law, Sect. VI, Art. 5), 

 it will be seen that there is a decrease of 56 in the number of 

 Fellows (as compared with a decrease of 11 in 1914, and an increase 

 of 21 in 1913). 



The total Number of Fellows is, therefore, at present 1257. 



Turning now to the Lists of Foreign Members and Foreign 

 Correspondents, the Council has to regret the loss during the past 

 year of Prof. C. R. Zeiller, and of M. E. Rigaux. It will be re- 

 membered that, in the list of Foreign Members at the end of 1914, 

 there was one vacancy, and four in that of Foreign Correspondents ; 

 and, as no elections were held to make up the numbers during the 

 past year, there are, at present, two vacancies in the List of Foreign 

 Members and five vacancies in that of Foreign Correspondents. 



With regard to the Income and Expenditure of the Society during 

 1915, the figures set forth in detail in the Balance-Sheet may 

 be summarized as follows : — The actual Receipts (excluding the 

 Balance of £105 18s. 5d. brought forward from the previous year) 

 amounted to £2836 2s. lQrf., being £291 16s. lOd. more than the 

 estimated Income. 



On the other hand, the Expenditure during the same year 

 amounted to £2306 7s. lid,, being £237 18s. Id. less than the 

 estimated Expenditure, and the year closed with a Balance in hand 

 of £635 13s. 4f?. This money is mainly required for printing the 

 Journal iioav in progress. 



Of the four permanent members of the Society's staff, three are 

 still serving in varkrus capacities under the War Office. Mean- 

 while, temporary help has been obtained in the shape of the 

 appointment of Mr. Walter Davis as Assistant in the Office, and of 

 Miss M. Seymour (recently on the staff of the Royal Society's 

 Catalogue of Scientific Papers) as Assistant in the Library. 



