ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



February 21, 1890. 

 . W. T. Blanpoed, LL.D., E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Repokt or THE Council por 1889. 



In presenting their Rex^ort for the year 1889, the Council have 

 much pleasure in congratulating the Fellows upon the continued 

 and apparently increasing prosperity of the Society. The actual 

 Income of the Society was, indeed, rather less than in 1888, but 

 notwithstanding the Investment of a sum of nearly £200, and the 

 considerable expenses incurred in connexion with the Revision of 

 the Bye-Laws, the Balance at the credit of the Society is fully 

 maintained. 



The number of Fellows elected during the year was 68, of whom 

 46 paid their fees before the end of the year, making with 15 

 previously elected Fellows, who paid their fees in 1889, and 1 

 Fellow re-admitted without payment of Entrance-fee, a total acces- 

 sion during the year of 62 Fellows. But during the same period 

 there was loss by death of 38 Fellows, and by resignation of 

 13 Fellows, and 5 Fellows were removed from the List for non- 

 payment of their annual contributions, making a total loss of ^^ 

 Fellows. The actual increase in the number of Fellows is thus 

 only 6. Of the 38 Fellows deceased, 7 were Compounders, 14 

 Contributing Fellows, and 17 I^on-contributing Fellows. During 

 the year 13 Contributing Fellows sent in their resignations, and 6 

 compounded for their Annual Contributions, so that the actual 

 increase in the number of Contributing Fellows is 24, making a 

 total of 856. 



The total number of Fellows, Foreign Members and Foreign 

 Correspondents was 1373 at the end of 1888, and 1379 at the close 

 of the year 1889. 



..\t the end of the year 1888 there was 1 vacancy in the List of 

 Foreign Members, and in the course of 1889 intelligence was 

 received of the decease of 2 Foreign Members. During the year 

 3 Foreign Members were elected. At the close of 1888 there was 

 also 1 vacancy in the List of Foreign Correspondents, and further 

 vacancies were caused by the filling up of those among the Foreign 

 Members* and by the death of 3 Foreign Correspondents in the 



