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Annual Meeting, April 17th, 1866. 
R. Angus Smith, Ph. D., F.R.S., &c., President, in 
the Chair. 
The following report of the Council was read by one of the 
Secretaries : — 
The Council have again the satisfaction to report that 
although the balance of the Treasurer’s account has been 
reduced from £360. 4s. 3d. on the 1st of April, 1865, to 
£269. 4s. 3d. on the 1st of April, 1866, the finances of the 
Society are nevertheless in a healthy state. Extra expendi- 
ture has been incurred during the past year for printing and 
publishing vol. 2 , series 3, of the Society’s Memoirs ; binding 
books in the library ; printing a catalogue of the Society’s 
library; and purchasing new hooks, and also volumes to 
complete imperfect sets. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the Society 
on the 1st of April, 1865, was 187. Five new members have 
been elected during the year ; and the losses have been by 
deaths, six ; resignations, one ; and defaulters, two. The 
number of members on the roll on the 1st of April, 1866, was 
therefore 183. The deceased members are — Rev. Thos. 
Buckley, M.A., Mr. James Joseph Dean, Mr. John Parry, 
Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart., F.R.S., Mr. John Whalley, 
and Mr. Richard H amps on. 
Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart., F.R.S., was one of the 
oldest members of the Society, having been elected on the 
27th of January, 1815. He held the office of Treasurer for 
many years, and was one of the Trustees of the Society’s 
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