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Annual Meeting, April 25th, 1865. 
R. Angus Smith, Ph.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
On the motion of Mr. Brockbank, seconded by Mr. 
Carrick, it was resolved unanimously— “That the election 
of Sectional Associates be continued during the next 
session.” 
The following report of the Council was read by one of the 
Secretaries : — 
In presenting their annual report the Council have again 
to congratulate the Society on the satisfactory position of its 
finances. Although several payments of a somewhat excep- 
tional character have been made during the past year, the 
balance in the Treasurer’s hands has only been reduced from 
£371. 8s. id. on the 31st of March, 1864, to £360. 4s. 3d. 
on the 31st of March, 1865. 
The number of ordinary members on the 1st of April, 1864, 
was 193, and ten new members have since been elected. 
The loss by resignations has been three , by defaulters four, 
and by deaths the unusually large number of nine. The 
number of ordinary members on the roll of the Society on 
the 1st of April instant was 187. 
The deceased members are,— Messrs. John Atkinson, C. F. 
Ekman, John Gould, John Hetherington, Thomas Hopkins 
John Jesse, F.R.S., William Nield, John Shuttleworth, and 
Robert Walker, M.D. 
In the death of their late Honorary Librarian, Mr. C. F. 
Ekman, the Society have lost an officer whose intelligence, 
zeal, and devotion to his duties and to the interests of the 
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