Report of the Meetings for 1894. 95 



Club were only about half througrb, and he might safely say 

 he would have a similar amount to pay before the Transactions 

 were in the hands of the members. Deducting the amount 

 he had paid from what he had received, left £111 18s. in 

 his hands. The Proceedings had not been brought out in 

 such a regular way as they might have been, yet he thought 

 the members would agree with him that they had been 

 brought out so accurately that the delay was justified. The 

 gentlemen who had furnished them with papers had invariably 

 received proofs, which they had revised and corrected, and 

 he (Mr Middlemas) believed their Transactions stood at the 

 head of almost any Society in the country. (Applause.) 

 Over and above this he had the whole of last year's 

 subscriptions in hand. He wished to know how he should 

 deal with the funds in the future. He had mentioned the 

 subject to some of the members, and he proposed himself 

 that he should not call upon the members for any subscription 

 for the year, but that he should charge the members who 

 had been admitted that day the admission fee and the 

 subscription as usual. Since lie came into tlie room he had 

 spoken about the matter with a gentleman who took an active 

 interest in the Club, and he suggested that the subscriptions 

 should still be collected, but that a smaller sum than the 

 7s., which had hitherto been collected, should be charged. 

 It was for that meeting to say what was to be done. The 

 gentleman he had been speaking to thought they should 

 always have a fund in hand. He should like somehow to 

 get rid of this balance. Also regarding members joining, he 

 wished some instructions. Sometimes he sent out a circular 

 demanding lOs. admission fee, and a subscription of 7s. No 

 answer was returned to that. A second letter went at the 

 end of the year, and sometimes there was an answer and 

 sometimes there was not. The question was whether they 

 would not make some regulation. Every person proposed, 

 and who wished to be a member of the Club, should show 

 some interest in it after he had had the honour of being 

 elected — (hear, hear) —by acknowledging, within a given time, 

 receipt of the lettei-, and by paying his subscription. If 

 they would fix a time he could give notice of it in his 

 circular, and if it was not complied with the election ^ould 

 be void, 



