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Anminl Tteport. 



[Feb., 



customary to enforce tlie rules relating to arrears of subscription very 

 strictly. The presence of names of this description on the Society's list 

 needlessly complicated the Society's accounts, and during the present year 

 the officers of the Society have made an attempt to clear the list of such 

 merely nominal members. All such gentlemen whose addresses could be 

 obtained have been communicated with, and the result has been that 

 several have recommenced paying their subscriptions, whilst others have 

 preferred that they should be considered to have withdrawn years ago 

 when communications between them and the Society ceased. In other 

 cases the Council has ordered the names of such gentlemen to be struck 

 off the list. The nett result has been that eight names have in this way 

 been erased from the list. This, however, represents no loss to the Society, 

 as the gentlemen in question had long ceased to hold communication with, 

 or pay subscriptions to, the Society : and it may be held as a considerable 

 set-off against this loss that several such members have resumed their 

 interest in, and connection with, the Society, and have begun again to pay 

 their subscriptions, so that they are virtually new members. The nett 

 diminution of the number of names on the Member List has thus been 

 13, the total number of members being 337 on December 31st, 1882, 

 as against 350 at the close of the preceding year. This decrease is, as will 

 be seen, partlj^ the consequence of increased activity in attending to tlie 

 Society's financial affairs : and the following table, giving the number of 

 members and the total amounts realised from subscriptions during the 

 preceding 6 years, will show that, wliilst the number of members has 

 diminished slightly during the last two years, the payments received for 

 »5ubscriptions have increased very considerably. 





Paying. 



Non- Paying. 



Grand 

 Total. 



Amount of 

 subscrip- 

 tions 

 realised. 



Year. 



Resident 



Non- 

 Resident. 





Total. 



Life. 



a 



1 



< 



Total. 



1877 

 1878 

 1879 

 1880 

 1881 

 1882 



113 

 117 

 111 

 112 

 110 

 101 



163 

 153 

 154 

 185 

 168 

 155 



14 

 15 



16 

 15 



17 

 18 



290 

 285 

 281 

 312 

 295 

 274 



9 

 13 

 12 

 14 

 14 

 15 



46 

 29 

 36 

 30 

 41 

 48 



55 

 42 

 48 

 44 

 65 

 63 



345 

 327 

 329 



356 

 350 

 337 



Rs. 7,200 

 „ 7,006 

 M 7,421 

 „ 7,695 

 „ 8,798 

 „ 8,672 



It will be seen from this table tliat, of the 337 members on the 3 1st 

 December, 1882, 101 are Resident, 155 Non-Resident, 18 Foreign, 15 Life 

 and 4(8 Non-Subscribing Members. During the year one member* Mr. W» 

 T. Blauford, compounded for his future subscriptions. 



