ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



February 17th, 1911. 



Prof. W. W. Watts, Sc.D., M.Sc, F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Report of the CouN.cir. FOR 1910. 



The Society shared in the national mourning occasioned by the 

 untimely decease of His Majesty, King Edward VII. The Pre- 

 sident gave expression to the sorrow felt by the Fellows, by 

 postponing sine die the fleeting which had been arranged for 

 May 11th, 1910. At a later date, the President and Council, on 

 their own behalf and on that of the Fellows, presented an Address 

 to King George V, expressing their respectful condolence with him 

 on the death of the late Monarch, and welcoming His Majesty's 

 accession to the Throne. The text of this Address, to which a 

 gracious reply was received, will be found at p. xcii of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the last Session (Q. J. G. S. vol. lxvi, 1910). 



Although there were fewer new Fellows elected in 1910 than 

 during the previous year, a slight increase in the total number of 

 Fellows can still be recorded. In 1910, the Fellows elected 

 numbered 48 (as compared with 6-1 in 1909), and 35 of these paid 

 their Admission Fees before the end of the year. Moreover, 21 

 Fellows who had been elected in 1909 paid their Admission Fees 

 in 1910, making the total Accession of new Fellows during the 

 twelve months under review amount to 56. 



Setting against this number a loss of 51 Fellows (24 by death, 

 18 by resignation, and 9 by removal from the List, under Bye-Laws, 

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

 the Number of Fellows of 5 (as compared with an increase of 11 in 

 1909, and of 5 in 1908). 



The total Xumber of Fellows is thus increased to 1299, made 

 up as follows : — Compounders 252 (G less than in 1909) ; Con- 

 tributing Fellows 1025 (14 more than in 1909) ; and Xon- 

 contributing Fellows 22 (3 less than in 1909). 



Turning to the Lists of Foreign Members and Foreign Corre- 

 spondents, the Council have the rare pleasure of stating that no 

 losses have been experienced during the year. The two vacancies 

 in the List of Foreign Correspondents which were left at the end 

 of 1909, were in due course filled by the election of Prof. F. A. 

 Forel and Dr. A. E. Tornebohm, making both Lists complete. 



With regard to the Income and Expenditure of the Society 

 during 1910, the figures set forth in detail in the Balance-Sheet 

 may be summarized as follows : — The actual lleceipts (excluding 



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