x1 ANNUAL REPORT. 
Some pains have been taken this year, for which the Society is 
particularly indebted to the Vice-President, to get in order and to 
catalogue our growing Library of exchanges, and also to obtain 
missing copies, &c, &c. An agent (Messrs. Korn ier of Leipzig) 
has also been appointed for Germany, in addition to Messrs. 
Tripner in London and Messrs. Ernust Leroux & Co. in Paris. 
The Council has felt itself justified, in view of the large balance 
of $1,032 in hand, in reducing the annual subscription for members 
from $6 to $5. 
The Council now resigning office has, in the course of the year, 
been weakened by the departure of its President, its Vice-President 
for Penang, and its Honorary Secretary, and also of one of its 
Councillors; but it has been enabled to hold its meetings owing to 
the quorum of three officers now allowed under the amended Rule 
12, passed at the last annual general meeting. The duties of- 
Honorary Secretary have, since Mr. Swerrennam left the Settle- 
ment, been undertaken by one of the Councillors (Mr. Skinner). 
The number of new members elected during 1882 was 6, exclu- 
sive of the 5 members elected at the last annual meeting in 
January, 1882, 
The total number is now as follows :— 
Honorary Members... 0 
Ordinary Members, ......... 104 
