ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



February 16th, 1906. 



J. E. Mare, Sc.D., F.B.S., President, in the Chair. 

 Keport of the Council for 1905. 



We regret to have to announce a decrease in the total Number of 

 Fellows, although the Number elected (48) during the year under 

 review exceeded by 2 the Number elected in each of the years 1903 

 and 1904. Of the 48 Fellows elected in 1905, 36 paid their 

 Admission-Fees before the end of that year, and 13 Fellows, who 

 had been elected in the previous year, also paid their Admission- 

 Fees during 1905. The total Accession of New Fellows within the 

 twelve months under review amounts, therefore, to 49 (the same 

 number as in 1903, but 5 more than in 1904). 



Setting against this number a loss of 61 Fellows (26 by death, 

 19 by resignation, and 16 by removal from the List, under Bye- 

 Laws, Sect. VI, Art. 5), it will be seen that there is a decrease in 

 the Number of Fellows of 12 (as compared with a decrease of 3 in 



1904, and of 4 in 1903). 



The total Number of Fellows is thus reduced to 1239, made up 

 as follows : — Compounders, 280 ; Contributing Fellows, 926 (8 less 

 than in 1904, and 4 less than in 1903) ; and Non-Contributing 

 Fellows, 33. 



Turning now to the Lists of Foreign Members and Foreign 

 Correspondents, we have, as in the previous year, to deplore the 

 loss of two of the former, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen and 

 Prof. Gustave Dewalque, and also the loss of one Foreign Corre- 

 spondent, Prof. Victor Baulin. The vacancies thus created were 

 in part filled by the transfer of Dr. Louis Dollo and Prof. August 

 Bothpletz from the List of Correspondents to that of Members, and 

 by the election of Prof. Bundjiro Koto (the first native of Japan to 

 appear in the List) as Foreign Correspondent. At the end of 

 the year there still remained, however, two vacancies in the List of 

 Foreign Correspondents. 



"With regard to the Income and Expenditure of the Society during 



1905, the figures set forth in detail in the Balance-Sheet may be 

 summarized as follows : — 



The total Keceipts, including the Balance of <£409 7s. 7d. brought 

 forward from the previous year, amounted to £3371 95. 7d., being 

 <£25 6s. Od. more than the estimated Income. 



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