ANNUAL MEETING. 



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may be allowed to repeat what was stated in the Report for 

 last year, — that from time to time expressions of approval are 

 received from foreign countries, while most of the learned 

 societies at home and abroad exchange publications with the 

 Institute. Of persons connected with our Society, about 

 74 belong to the United States of America, 40 to India, 14 to 

 Australia, 12 to Canada, and about the same number to New 

 Zealand and South Africa. 



The Council have the pleasure of stating that Dr. Fridtjof 

 Nansen, the distinguished Arctic explorer, has accepted the 

 position of Hon. Corresponding member in the place of the late 

 Sir H. M. Stanley, and Professor Warren Upham of Minnesota, 

 distinguished for his memoirs on American Geological Science, 

 takes the place of the late Professor Etheridge, F.Ii.S. 



8. Conchision. 



While humbly desiring the continued blessing of Almighty 

 God, and the support of its members, the Council wishes to 

 express its thanks to the contributors of papers which are 

 being offered in increasing numbers, and to press upon its 

 friends the duty of doing what in them lies to increase the 

 numbers and extend the usefulness of the Institute. 



Signed on behalf of the Council, 



HALSBURY, 



President. 



