if PROCEEDINGS, 



The following Officers and Councillors are elected : — 



President, Yen. Arch. G. F. Hose, m. a. 



T7 -, -p . -j , f Penan g, Hon. C. J. Irving. 

 Viee-Prendent j Singap - , e< Major s< Dun f op> 



Honorary Secretary, A. M. Skinner, Esq. 

 Honorary Treasurer, J, Miller Esq. 



Cous cillobs, 



E. Bieber, Esq., l. l. d. 

 N. B. Dennys, Esq., Ph D, 

 E. Koek, Esq. 

 D. E. A, Hervey, Esq. 

 B. W. Hnllett, Esq., m. a. 



A vote of thanks to the Honorary Secretary for his services 

 during the year having been put and carried, the Meeting 

 separates, 



The Council's Annual Report foe 1878. 



Bead at the Annual Meeting held on the IWi January, 1879, 



In presenting to the Straits Asiatic Society their first 

 Animal Report, the Council are glad of the opportunity to 

 review briefly the steps which have been made to consolidate 

 and extend the work of the Society, since the first General 

 Meeting of January 21st. 



It is satisfactory to record that the accession of new mem- 

 bers has steadily continued, and at the present time the 

 Society may congratulate itself upon numbering in all 158 

 Members, viz : — 



The Patron (an office H. E. the Governor was pleased to 

 accept last August.) 



4 Honorary Members (the Raja of Sarawak, Messrs. 

 Maclay, Favre and J. Peril am.) 



153 Ordinary Members (including the Officers and Coun- 

 cillors.) 



In March, the Royal Asiatic Society, the parent of many 

 branches, communicated its willingness to allow the Society 

 to be affiliated to it in the usual manner. 



