102 Annual Report of the Council. 



Annual Report of the Council, April, 1896. 



The Society began the session with an ordinary mem- 

 bership of 132. During the present session one former 

 member has been re-admitted, and 22 new members have 

 joined the Society ; 3 resignations have been received, 

 and the deaths have been 2, viz. : Mr. John Lawson 

 Kennedy and Mr. Henry Davis Pochin. This leaves on 

 the roll 150 ordinary members. The Society has also 

 lost four honorary members by death, viz. : Dr. John 

 Russell Hind, F.R.S. ; Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, 

 M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., P.P.R.S., &c. ; M. Louis 

 Pasteur, For. Mem. R.S. ; and Professor W. C. William- 

 son, LL.D., F.R.S. 



The financial position of the Society, as shown by the 

 accompanying balance-sheets, is more satisfactory than it 

 has been for many years. This has been due to receipts 

 from the Wilde Endowment Fund ; to an extended mem- 

 bership list, mainly the result of cancelling the admission 

 fee ; and especially to another donation from the Presi- 

 dent, Mr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S., of £250. The object of 

 this gift was, partly, to meet certain additional expenditure 

 in altering the electric installation in compliance with the 

 Fire Insurance rules, and for other necessary internal ac- 

 commodation, but mainly to have all liabilities discharged, 

 as far as was possible, by the end of the financial year. 



The amount of cash lying at the Society's bankers on 

 the 31st March, 1896, was £357. 2s. yd., or £194. 5s. 8d. 

 more than it was at the corresponding period in the pre- 

 vious year. The details of the receipts and payments will 

 be found in the Treasurer's Accounts at the end of this 

 report. 



