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GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Wednesday, December 9, 18G3. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council have to report that since the last General Meeting 
317 members have been elected, while 2 Governors and 33 
members have died, and 22 members have been removed from 
the list ; so that the Society now consists of — 
79 Life Governors, ' 
87 Annual Governors, 
1,308 Life Members, 
3,952 Annual Members, 
17 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 5,443 at the present time ; being an increase of 
266 within the year. 
The finances of the Society are in a satisfactory condition, as 
is shown by the Balance-sheet to the 30th of June, which has 
been already published in the 'Journal;' since which time the 
Finance Committee have reported that all claims against the 
Society submitted to them up to their last meeting had been dis- 
charged. The funded property invested in the names of the 
Trustees remains- at 16,488/. 17s. lOd. stock in the New Three 
per Cents. 
The collection of the arrears of subscription has been steadily 
progressing ; the amount now due, inclusive of those in arrear 
for the present year, being 631/.; and the Council hope that, by 
an early payment of the subscription, the members will enable 
them to frame the financial arrangements for the ensuing year. 
The period of holding the half-yearly audits having been 
more closely approximated to the termination of the half-years, 
