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Annual Report of the Council, April, 1895. 



During the session 1894-5 there have been admitted to 

 the Society 21 ordinary members, and 4 ordinary members 

 have resigned. These changes leave the number of ordinary 

 members on the Society's roll 136, as against 119 at the 

 close of the session 1893-4. This is the first time for 

 several years that the Council has been able to report an 

 increase of membership. The Council hopes that this 

 change in the fortunes of the Society may be a permanent 

 feature, and would urge the members not to neglect 

 opportunities of still further increasing the list under the 

 new conditions recently provided. The Society has lost 

 by death the following honorary and corresponding mem- 

 bers : — Arthur Cayley, F.R.S., &c, the Rev. Thomas P. 

 Kirkman, F.R.S., the Marquis de Saporta, Hermann Von 

 Helmholtz, A. Kundt, J. C. de Marignac, Lothar Meyer, 

 Wilhelm Roscher, and Sir James Cockle, F.R.S. 



The Treasurer's accounts presented with this report give 

 the detailed expenditure and receipts during the financial 

 year ended March, 31st, 1895, and show that the cash in 

 the hands of the Society's bankers at the close of the 

 financial year was £162. 16s. lid., or £%i. 17s. od. less than 

 it was at the corresponding period in 1894. In consequence 

 of the Society's late housekeeper, Mr. Charles Hargreaves, 

 having been incapacitated by illness from collecting mem- 

 bers' subscriptions, the income from this source shows a 

 falling-off as compared with that of the previous year, but 

 as the charges for printing incurred during the session have 

 not been adjusted in time to be included in these accounts, 

 the balance in the Society's favour would not have been 

 materially altered. The Council reports with regret that 

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