Annual Report of the Council. xxix 



Annual Report of the Council, April, 1899. 



The Society began the session with an ordinary membership 

 of 152. During the present session 10 new members have joined 

 the Society ; 7 resignations have been received, and the deaths 

 have been 5, viz. : Mr. Charles Lowe, F.CS. ; Mr. H. M. 

 Ormerod, F.G.S. j Mr. R. M. Pankhurst, LL.D. ; Mr. James 

 Rhodes, F.R.C.S. ; and Mr. John Wright. This leaves on the 

 roll 150 ordinary members. The Society has also lost 5 

 honorary members by death, viz. : Professor Ferdinand Cohn, 

 For. Mem. R.S. ; Professor Sophus Lie, For. Mem. R.S. ; Lord 

 Playfair, G.C.B., F.R.S.; Mr. Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S. ; and 

 Professor Gustav Wiedemann, For. Mem. R S. Memorial notices 

 ■of these gentlemen appear at the end of this report. 



The Treasurer commenced the year with a balance in 

 favour of the Society of ^236. los. yd. (including £,\i^. 19s. od., 

 balance of the Wilde Endowment Fund), and reports that the 

 total balance, exclusive of the amount still owing by the 

 Natural History Fund, but including the Wilde and Joule 

 Funds, at the bankers and in hand, at the close of the year, of 

 £x^o. OS. 7|d. 



The Treasurer reports that the session closing March 3TSt, 

 1899, has been an exceptionally expensive one to the Society. 

 The necessary repairs to the Society's house and the new 

 Bookcases required amounting to ;^65, with the large amount 

 spent on bookbinding, will leave the balance at the Society's 

 Bankers comparatively small, but as this expenditure will not be 

 required again for many years, the Treasurer feels that the Society 

 is in a favourable position financially. 



The large amount spent on new Bookcases arose through 

 .an exceptional opportunity occurring from the sale by Owens 



