ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



February 16th, 1912. 



Prof. W. W. Watts, Sc.D., LL.D., M.Sc, F.H.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Report oe the Council eoe 1911. 



During the year 1911, 48 new Fellows were elected into the 

 Society, the same number as were elected during the previous year. 

 Nevertheless, a slight decrease in the total number of Fellows has 

 to be recorded. Of the 48 Fellows elected in 1911, 35 paid their 

 Admission Fees before the end of the year. Of the Fellows who 

 had been elected in the previous year, 12 paid their Admission Fees 

 in 1911, making the total accession of new Fellows during the year 

 under review amount to 47. 



Deducting from this number a loss of 52 Fellows (20 by death, 

 17 by resignation, and 15 by removal from the List, under Bye- 

 Laws, Sect. YI, Art. 5), it will be seen that there is a decrease in 

 the Number of Fellows of 5 (as compared with an increase of 5 

 in 1910 and of 11 in 1909). 



The total Number of Fellows is therefore now 1294, made up 

 as follows : Compounders, 248 (4 less than in 1910) ; Contributing 

 Fellows, 1024 (1 less than in 1910) ; and Non-coutributing Fellows, 

 22 (the same as in 1910). 



Turning to the Lists of Foreign Members and Foreign Corre- 

 spondents, the Council recall with regret the loss during the past 

 year of Dr. E. Dupont, Dr. A. Michel Levy, and Dr. C. A. White, 

 Foreign Members ; as also of Prof. G. Stefanescu and Dr. A. E. 

 Tornebohm, Foreign Correspondents. The vacancies in the list of 

 Foreign Members were filled up by the election of Baron G. de Geer, 

 Prof. A. Baltzer, and Dr. E. de Margerie ; two vacancies in the 

 List of Foreign Correspondents were filled by the election of 

 Prof. C. Deperet and Prof. A. G. Hogbom, but there still remained 

 three vacancies in the List of Foreign Correspondents at the end of 

 the year. 



With regard to the Income and Expenditure of the Society during 

 1911, the figures set forth in detail in the Balance-Sheet may be 

 summarized as follows : — The actual Receipts (excluding the Balance 

 of <£352 19s. 2cZ. brought forward from the previous year, and £100, 

 the amount of the Hannah Bequest) amounted to £3029 19s. lie?., 

 being .£35 6s. Id. less than the estimated Income. On the other 

 hand, the total Expenditure during the same year amounted to 

 £3007 Is. 3(i., being £56 10s. Qd. less than the estimated Expen- 

 diture for the year, and £22 12s. 8c?. less than the actual Receipts : 

 the year closing with a Balance in hand of £375 lis. lOcZ. 

 (excluding the Hannah Bequest). 



The question of the transference of the collections in the Society's 

 Museum, to which reference was made in the previous Annual 



