





Annual Beport. 





Year. 





Paying 



' Members. Absent 







Resident. 



Non-resident. 





1862 



229 



(104, 



125) 



82 



1863 



276 



(130, 



146) 



79 



1864 



228 



(133, 



195) 



92 



1865 



267 



(136, 



131) 



109 



1866 



293 



(124, 



169) 



94 



1867 



307 



(154, 



153) 



109 



1868 



294 



(159, 



135) 



133 



1869 



304 



(162, 



142) 



138 



1870 



266 



(134, 



132) 



148 



1871 



286 



(112, 



174) 



160 



[Feb. 

 Total. 



811 

 355 



320 

 376 

 387 

 416 

 427 

 442 

 414 

 446 



There was one election of an Honorary Member, Mr. C. Darwin having 

 been elected in June last. There was no change in the Hst of Associate 

 Members. 



The Council regret to announce the death of two of their most distin- 

 guished Ordinary Members, the Hon'ble J. P. Norman, and the Venerable 

 Archdeacon J. H. Pratt, the latter of whom had been a member since 1839, 

 The Society also lost two of its Honorary Members, Sir J. F. W. Herschel, 

 F. E. S., and CoL Sir P. T. Cautley, K. C. B., F. E. S. 



Museum. 



The Council have continued to carry out the provisions of Act XYII 

 of 1866, and have transferred all Natural Historical and Archaeological dona- 

 tions received by them during 1871 to the Trustees of the Indian Museum. 

 A list of these donations will be found in the Appendix to the Proceedings 

 for 1871. 



Trustees, on the part of the Society, were, during last year, the President, 

 Mr. W. S. Atkinson, Mr. H. F. Blanford, and Dr. F. Stohczka. 



The Council have much pleasure in observing the present progress of the 

 new Museum building. 



The want of sufficient accommodation for the increasing library and 

 publications of the Society, the absence of a reading room, and the crowded 

 state of the Society's Meeting Hall, have for the last six years been felt to 

 be serious obstacles to the usefulness of the Society and the convenience of its 

 members. The Government, however, found means to set aside in last year's 

 budget a most liberal sum for the immediate completion of the new building, 

 and the Council with every satisfaction look forward towards the speedy 

 removal of the temporary inconvenience to which the Society is at present 

 subject. This, however, is still so great, and the loss to the Society so considera- 

 ble, that the Council have felt it their dutj^, in the interests of the Society, to 

 apply to Government for a grant of money at the rate of Es. 400 a month 



