xliv Report to the General Meeting. 
report to the Members the large amount of arrears of subscription 
discharged during the past half-year, as well as the mode pro- 
posed for facilitating the future collection of subscriptions. Since 
the last Half-yearly Meeting upwards of 300 new Members have 
been elected, and the Society now consists of the following Mem- 
bers : — 
Life governors 97 
Annual Governors 208 
Annual Members 6037 
Life members 470 
Honorary members 15 
making a total of 6827 Members on the list of the Society at the 
present time. The Council have unanimously requested Mr. 
Pusey to accept the office of a trustee of the Society, vacant by 
the death of the Duke of Grafton, and have elected Mr. Thomas 
Lockley Meire, of Cound Arbour, near Shrewsbury, a member of 
the Council, in the place of the late Mr. Edward Gough, of Gravel 
Hill, near Shrewsbury. 
The increasing importance attached by the Members to the 
possession of the Society's Journal, has led the Journal Committee 
to continue its best consideration of the means by which the distri- 
bution on each publication may be effected with the greatest cer- 
tainty, and least loss of time, among the Members throughout the 
kingdom ; and they trust that this desirable object will gradually 
become attained, as the addresses of Members are more accurately 
known, and the most convenient modes of transmission to them 
more distinctly ascertained. For the convenience of Members 
availing themselves of their privilege of attending the rooms of the 
Society, the Council have ordered a catalogue of the library, and 
an inventory of the implements, models, «S:c., to be prepared for 
their reference. 
Four years having elapsed since the date of the charter, and 
the bye-laws then framed agreeably with the new powers conferred 
upon the Society, the Council have been desirous of rendering the 
experience gained during this period available for the regulation 
of their proceedings ; and they have accordingly made a complete 
