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10 Officers and Members of the Council, 

 139 Ordinary Members. 



The Officers and Members of the Council, whose Report is 

 now before the Society, were elected, as laid down in Rule 18, at 

 the Annual General Meeting held on the 13th January, 1879. In 

 April Dr. Rieber, one of the Council, left for Europe, and the 

 remaining Officers of the Council elected Mr. Reme, under Rule 

 10, to the place left vacant in the Council. In November the 

 departure of Mr. IIervet caused another vacancy, which has not 

 been filled. 



The Treasurer, Mr. J, Miller, being temporarily absent, the 

 duties of his office were, at the close of the year, kindly undertaken 

 by Mr. Koee:, who presents the Financial Account for 1879 to this 

 Meeting. 



The objects of the Society, as originally defined, are : — 



(a.) The investigation of subjects connected with the Straits 

 of Malacca and the neighbouring countries. 



(b.) The publication of papers in a Journal. 



(c.) The formation of a library of books bearing on the objects 

 of the Society. 



Numbers 2 and 3 of our series of Journals, have been issued 

 in the course of the year — No. 2 in April and No. 3 in November. 



Nineteen " Papers " and sixteen " Miscellaneous Notices " on 

 various subjects, as defined above, have appeared altogether. The 

 difficulties, already referred to as being inseparable from the posi- 

 tion of the Society, are particularly felt in connection with the 

 printing of these Papers and Journals ; and it is to these difficulties 

 alone, and not to the want of contributions, that any delay in the 

 appearance of the Journal is to be attributed. 



The subjects investigated comprise, amongst other topics, ori* 

 ginal accounts of the: — 



1. Sakeis in the Interior of the Peninsula. 



2. Sakeis in Perak. 



3. Semangs in Kedah> 



4. Macro donti^m, 



