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Annual Be/port. 



[Feb. 



advantage o£ the Society, especially as they now possess one of the finest 

 suites of rooms in Calcutta for their meetings, whilst the remaining space 

 in the house is better adapted to the requirements of the Society, and the 

 increasing stock of its publications, than the rooms in the New Museum 

 ever could have been. 



At the close of the year 1876, there were 3-17 Ordinary Members on 

 the rolls of the Society, of whom 54 were in Europe. Of these Members 

 in Europe 48 are non-subscribing Members, leaving a balance of 299 actual 

 paying Members, of whom 119 are Resident, 175 non-Hesident and 5 Life 

 Members. 



During the year under review, there has been an accession of 31 new 

 Members, against 28 in the previous year, while the Society was deprived 

 of 17 Ordinary Members by resignation, and 6 by death, making a loss of 

 23, and leaving a total number of Ordinary Members at the close of the 

 year, 347 against 345 at the close of 1875. 



The following is a tabular statement showing the fluctuations in the 

 number of Members during the last ten years. 



Year. 



Paying. 



Absent. 



Total. 







Eesident. 



Non-Eesi- 

 dent. 



Non-pay. 

 ing. 





1867 



307 



154 



153 



109 



416 



1868 



294 



159 



135 



133 



427 



1869 



304 



162 



142 



138 



442 



1870 



266 



134 



132 



148 



414 



1871 



286 



112 



174 



160 



446 



1872 



279 



105 



172+2 L.M. 



159 



438 



1873 



305 



116 



186+3 L.M. 



53 



358 



1874 



312 



127 



184+3 L.M. 



32 



346 



1875 



295 



113 



179+3 L.M. 



50 



345 



1876 



299 



119 



175 + 5 L.M. 



48 



347 



Dr. "Werner Siemens, Berlin, and Colonel Henry Yule, H, E., C. B, 

 were in the past year elected Honorary Members. 



Of the Ordinary Members the Council have to regret the decease of 

 Mr. "W. S. Atkinson, Dr. R. Brown, Captain J. Butler, Mr. W. L. Heeley, 

 C. S., The Right Revd. Dr. R. Milman, Lord Bishop of Calcutta, and 

 Mr. W. G. Willson. Captain Butler contributed several valuable papers to 

 the Journal on the hill tribes of Eastern Asam and their languages ; he 

 died on the 7th January last from the effects of a spear- wound received 

 while on political duty in the Naga Hills. Mr. W. S. Atkinson was an 

 accomplished entomologist, and had been for several years a Secretary of the 

 Society, and a Society's Trustee of the Indian Museum. He died at Rome 



