ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



February 15th, 1907. 



Sir Archibald G-eikie, D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., Sec.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Eeport of the Council foe 1906. 



The generally-flourishing condition of the Society was marked in 

 the past year by a welcome increase in the Xumber of Fellows. 

 In 1906 the Fellows elected numbered 51 (as compared with 48 

 in 1905), and 38 of these paid their Admission-Fees before the 

 end of the year. Moreover, 12 Fellows who had been elected in 

 the previous year paid their Admission-Fees in 1906, making the 

 total Accession of new Fellows within the twelve months under 

 review amount to 50. 



Setting against this number a loss of 38 Fellows (27 by death, 

 7 by resignation, and 4 by removal from the List, under Bye-Laws, 

 Sect. VI, Art. 5), it will be noted that there is an increase in the 

 dumber of Fellows of 12 (as compared with a decrease of 12 in 

 1905, and of 3 in 1904). 



The total dumber of Fellows is thus increased to 1251, made 

 up as follows : — Compounders, 273 (7 less than in 1905) ; Con- 

 tributing Fellows, 946 (20 more than in 1905, and 12 more than 

 in 1904) ; and Xon-Contributing Fellows, 32 (1 less $han in 1905). 

 Turning now to the Lists of Foreign Members and Foreign 

 Correspondents, we have to deplore the loss, through an unfor- 

 tunate lift-accident, of 1 Foreign Member, the venerable Prof. Eugene 

 Eenevier ; and also the loss of 1 Foreign Correspondent, Prof. S. 

 L. Penfield. Moreover, at the end of 1905, there had remained 

 two vacancies in the List of Foreign Correspondents. These 

 vacancies were, in part, filled by the transfer of Count Hermann zu 

 Solms-Laubach from the List of Foreign Correspondents to that of 

 Foreign Members ; and by the election of Prof. J. M. Clarke, 

 Prof. W. M. Davis, and Dr. J. J. Sederholm as Foreign Cor- 

 respondents. At the end of 1906 there was still one vacancy in 

 the List of Foreign Correspondents. 



With regard to the Income and Expenditure of the Society during 



