ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



February 21sfc, 1896. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Report oe the Council eor 1895. 



The continued prosperity of the Society from the financial point of 

 view must again form a subject of congratulation, and the Council 

 have the additional pleasure of pointing out that the decrease which 

 had been noticeable in the number of Fellows, mentioned in the 

 three previous Annual Reports, has now been all but arrested, the 

 actual decrease in the total number of Fellows announced this year 

 being only 1, as compared with 11 in 1894, and 46 in 1893. 



During 1895 the total number of Fellows elected into the Society 

 was 43, of whom 32 paid their fees before the end of that year. 

 Moreover, fees were received from 12 previously elected Fellows, 

 and thus the total accession of new Fellows amounts to 44 during 

 the twelvemonth. 



There was, on the other hand, a total loss of 45 Fellows during 

 the year 1895 — 25 by death, 10 by resignation, and 10 removed from 

 the list because of non-payment of their Annual Contributions. 



The actual decrease in the total number of Fellows is, therefore, 

 as above stated, 1. 



Of the 25 Fellows deceased, 9 were Compounders, 10 were Con^ 

 tributing Fellows, and 6 were non- Contributing Fellows. 



On the other hand, 9 Fellows compounded during the past year 

 for their Annual Contributions. The total accession of Contri- 

 buting Fellows is thus seen to be 35, and the total loss being 30 

 (10 -f- 10 + 10), the increase in the number of Contributing Fellows 

 is 5. 



At the end of 1894 the Council reported one vacancy in the List 

 of Foreign Correspondents. In 1895, 4 Foreign Members and 

 1 Foreign Correspondent died. The vacancies which thus arose 

 were partly filled by the election of 3 Foreign Members and 3 Foreign 



