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The President observed that the report was one which wonld he 

 hoped be considered satisfactory by the meeting. It remained to be 

 seen how far the late reduction of subscription would succeed in its 

 object, but so far as could be judged from the large accession of mem- 

 bers during the year, he thought the experiment promised well. 

 Although 36 elections only out of the 53 had occurred since the 

 reduction was made, the others he thought were in a great measure 

 due to the expectation that it would be made. He thought the 

 Council were justified in pointing to the improved character of the 

 numbers of the Journal which had been published during the year, 

 several of the papers published in them having been very interesting. 

 He hoped that in the course of the coming year the Council would 

 be able, besides the Catalogues on which Mr. Blanford and Mr. 

 Theobald were engaged, to bring out another of the Mammal speci- 

 mens contained in the Society's Museum. Their Curator Mr. Blyth 

 had already made some progress in this compilation and had under- 

 taken soon to complete it. 



The meeting then proceeded to ballot for the Council and Officers 

 for the ensuing year. 



A. Fisher, Esq. and D. M. Gardner, Esq. were appointed scrutineers, 

 and at the close of the ballot the Chairman announced the following 

 result. 



A. Grote, Esq. President. 



Major R. Strachey, 



Dr. T. Thompson, ^ Vice-Presidents. 



Baboo Ramapersaud Roy, 



Colonel R. Baird Smith. 



Baboo Rajendralal Mittra. 



E. A. Samuells, Esq. 



Baboo Ramgopal Ghose. 



T. Oldham, Esq. 



Capt. C. H. Dickens. 



Capt. W. N. Lees. 



Dr. W. Crozier. 



R. Jones, Esq. 



"W. S. Atkinson, Esq., ") 



Joint Secretaries. 



E. B. Cowell, Esq 



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