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The Secretary presented his annual report as follows : 



"There have been held during the year 15 meetings, 

 being the same number as last year ; on May 3 — a very 

 stormy night — no meeting was held, through failure to 

 secure a quorum. 



'• The average attendance of members was 9, and ot 

 visitors 8. The total number of persons in attendance 

 was 254, of whom 122 were visitors, and 132 members. 



" The largest number of members present at any meeting 

 was 13, the smallest number 6; largest number of visitors 

 present, 27 ; largest attendance of both members and visit- 

 ors, 40 ; smallest total attendance, 7, which occurred but 

 once. The attendance of visitors shows an increase over 

 last year of 72 per cent, and the total attendance an in- 

 crease of 24 per cent. 



"There were on the roll at the commencement of the 

 year JJ members, consisting of Honorary, 3 ; Resident, 

 37 ; and Corresponding, 37. 



" One hundred and eight Resident members have been 

 added to the roll, while 4 have died, 4 have been dropped, 

 and one transferred to Corresponding membership, leaving 

 the total of Resident members 136. One Corresponding 

 member has died, and one has been transferred to Resident 

 membership, leaving the total of Corresponding members 

 35, and the grand total 174. 



"The members lost by death during the year are Charles 

 Slover Allen, Jenness Richardson, Alexander I. Cotheal, 

 Paul Hoffman, and B. F. Goss. 



*' There have been read before the Society 29 papers, 22 

 by the Resident members, 5 by the Corresponding mem- 

 bers, and 2 by strangers. Of these papers 22 were written, 

 this being a much larger proportion than last year. The 

 entire 29 papers have been furnished by 11 persons. 



"There have been added to the library during the past 

 year 214 publications, and it now contains 874 volumes and 

 pamphlets, as follows : 76 quartos, 24 royal octavos, and 

 774 octavos. The work of indexing the library is about 



