ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



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February' 15th, 1895. 

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



Report of the Council for 1894. . 



In once again congratulating the Fellows on the satisfactory con- 

 dition of the Society's finances, the Council have pleasure in pointing 

 ont that the decrease in the number of Fellows, to which attention 

 was drawn in the two previous annual reports, has been much less 

 apparent during the year under review. For 1893 the Council 

 announced an actual decrease of 46 Fellows, while in 1894 the 

 decrease is 11. 



The number of Fellows elected into the Society during 1894 

 was 48, of whom 36 paid their fees before the end of the year, 

 while fees were received from 7 previously elected Fellows, thus 

 making the total accession of new Fellows amount to 43 during the 

 twelvemonth. 



During the same period, however, there was a total loss of 54 

 Fellows — 20 by death, 19 by resignation, 13 removed from the list 

 because of non-payment of their Annual Contributions, and 2 non- 

 Contributors removed from the list after having remained thereon 

 for many years without any known address. 



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

 above stated, 11. 



Of the 20 Fellows deceased, 4 were Compounders, 13 were Con- 

 tributing Fellows, and 3 were non-Contributing Fellows. 



On the other hand, 4 Fellows compounded in 1894 for their 

 Annual Contributions, and 1 previously non-Resident Fellow was 

 placed on the Contributing List. The total accession of Contri- 

 buting Fellows is thus seen to be 40, and the total loss being 45 

 (19 + 13 + 13), the decrease in the number of Contributing Fellows 

 is 5. 



During the past year the work has been undertaken of carefully 



