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Tin? Council also satisfactorily observe that the total number of 

 ordinary members has also steadily increased for the last ten 

 3'ears, as shewn in the subjoined table : 



1860 



Paying, 



195 



225 



229 



276 



288 



267 .... 



293 



307 . . . . 



294 . . . . 



304 



Absent. 

 47 



Total 

 242 



1861 



55 



280 



1862 



82 



311 



1863 



79 



355 



1864 



92 



380 



1865 ... 



109 



376 



1866 . . . 



94 



387 



1867 



109 



416 



1868 



133 



427 



1869 ... 



138 



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The ordinary members the death of which the Council regret 

 to announce are — Lieut. -Col. C. D. Newinarch, E. E ; Ch. Ae. Old- 

 ham, Esq. ; J. B. Nelson, Esq. ; J. Gr. Hicks, Esq. ; Rajah Satya- 

 sarana Ghoshala, C. S. I. ; Babu Saradaprasada Mukerje, and the 

 Eev. M. D. C. Walters. 



The healthy condition of the Society is further shewn by the mark- 

 ed improvement in its finances. The income of the past year has ex- 

 ceeded the estimate by 1208 Rupees, and in effecting a saving in 

 the items of estimated expenditure wherever it appeared advisable 

 to do it, the Council has now the pleasure to state that all the debts 

 of the Society have been paid, and that a balance of 2,438 Eupees 

 was still left to the credit of the Society at the end of the year ; the 

 reserved fund of the Society remaining the same, 2000 Eupees, as 

 in the previous year. At the same time there is the very large 

 amount of Eupees 8,966 still outstanding for unpaid subscriptions 

 and sales of publications, chiefly to members. 



The Council have further the satisfaction to announce the comple- 

 tion of the xxxviiith volume of the Journal and one volume of the 

 Proceedings. In addition to these, the January Proceedings for the 

 current year have been issued, and the first numbers of both parts of 

 the Journal for 1870 are considerably advanced in the press. 



Museum. 



In November 1868 formal sand ion was given to the transfer of 

 the Society's Natural History and Archaeological collections to the 



