﻿ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



February 18th, 1910. 



Prof. W. J. Sollas, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Report of the Council fok 1909. 



It is gratifying to note that the increase in the Number of 

 Fellows has been more than maintained during the past year. 

 In 1909 the Fellows elected numbered 64 (as compared with 

 52 in 1908), and 40 of these paid their Admission Fees before the 

 end of the year. Moreover, 15 Fellows who had been elected in 

 the previous year paid their Admission Fees in 1909, making the 

 total Accession of new Fellows during the twelve months under 

 review amount to 55. 



Setting against this number a Loss of 44 Fellows (30 by death, 

 12 by resignation, and 2 by removal from the List, under Bye-Laws, 

 Sect. VI, Art. 5), it will be noted that there is a net increase in 

 the Number of Fellows of 11 (as compared with an increase of 

 5 in 1908, and of 27 in 1907). 



The total Number of Fellows is thus increased to 1294, made 

 up as follows : — Compounders, 258 (4 less than in 1908) ; Con- 

 tributing Fellows, 1011 (17 more than in 1908); and Non- 

 Contributing Fellows, 25 (2 less than in 1908). 



Turning to the Lists of Foreign Members and Foreign Corre- 

 spondents, we have to deplore the loss of 1 Foreign Member (Dr. F. 

 Schmidt), and of 1 Foreign Correspondent (M. Perceval de Loriol- 

 Lefort). At the end of 1908 there were three vacancies in the 

 List of Foreign Members ; these, as well as the vacancy made by 

 the decease of Dr. Schmidt, were filled by the election of Prof. B. 

 Koto, Dr. F. Cernysev, Prof. J. H. L. Vogt, and Prof. R. Zeiller 

 into that List. Three of the five vacancies arising in the List 

 of Foreign Correspondents were filled by the election of Dr. D. 

 de Cortazar, Prof. M. Lugeon, and Prof. R. S. Tarr, leaving two 

 vacancies in the List of Foreign Correspondents at the end "of 

 1909. 



With regard to the Income and Expenditure of the Society 



during 1909, the figures set forth in detail in the Balance-Sheet 



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



the Balance of £198 0s. 2d. brought forward from the previous 



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