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«lse has had to do, to cut its garments according to its cloth. 

 When we reflect on the beneficent purposes on account of which 

 all the funds of this Society are expended, you will unite with me 

 in a fervent hope, that the coming year will show a turn of the 

 tide. 



Roll of Members. — The number of members on the roll on the 

 30th April, 1893, was four hundred and seventy-seven. Thirty- 

 one new members have been elected during the past year. We 

 have, however, lost by death nine Ordinary and one Honorary 

 member, and thirty-one by resignation. Twenty have been struck 

 off" the Roll for non-payment of their subscription, and three have 

 failed to take up their membership under Rule IXa. There is 

 thus left a total of four hundred and forty-five on April 30th 1894 ; 

 this number however, does not include the Honorary and Corres- 

 ponding members. A comparison of these figures with those of 

 .previous years shows, that the loss on the total membership during 

 the year is practically entirely due to resignation and to failure to 

 pay the annual subscription, — due therefore to the causes already 

 alluded to, and not to any diminished interest in the Society or 

 its work. 



The losses by death were : — 



Honorary Member : 



Tyndall, Prof., d.c.l., ll.d., f.r.s., Elected 1884. 

 Ordinary Members : 



Bayley, G. W. A., Elected 1878. 



Bell, Walter F., m.i.c.e. Irel, Elected 1892. 



Fischer, C. F., m.d., m.r.c.s. Eng., Elected 1874. 



Henry, James, Elected 1877. 



Leibius, Adolph, Ph. d.,m.a., f.c.s., Elected 1859. 



Mitchell, J. S, Elected 1887. 



Redfearn, W., Elected 1886. 



Saliniere, Rev. E. M., Elected 1876. 



Wilson, F. A. A., Elected 1879. 



Professor John Tyndall was seventy-three years of age when 

 he passed away, and had been a teacher of physics for some forty- 

 seven years. To him the word teacher was peculiarly fitted, 





