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Annual General Meeting, April 19, 1887. 
Professor Osborne Reynolds, LL.D., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
Mr. J. R. Williamson, and Mr. Ralph Holmes, B.A., were 
elected ordinary members of the Society. 
The following gentlemen, recommended by the Council, 
were elected honorary members ‘Professor Emile de Lave- 
leye, Liege University ; Professor S. P. Langley, Alleghany 
Observatory, Pittsburg, U.S. ; Professor Simon Newcomb, 
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Professor Alfred 
Cornu, Ecole Poly technique, Paris; J. Norman Lockyer, 
F.R.S., Science Schools, South Kensington; Sir William 
George Armstrong, C.B., I).C.L., LL.D., Newcastle-on-Tyne; 
Dr. H. D. Buys Ballot, Superintendent of the Royal 
Meteorological Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, 
Holland ; Professor Asa Gray, LL.D., Harvard College, 
Cambridge, U.S. ; and Dr. F. Romer, Breslau. 
Annual Report of the Council, 1st April, 1887. 
The Treasurer’s Accounts which accompany this Report 
will show that last year’s balance against the General Fund 
of £104 6s. 8d. has been increased this year by a further 
debit of £91 10s. as the difference between the year’s 
ordinary receipts and expenditure, and the debit balance 
against the General Fund stands at £195 16s. 8d. on the 
31st March, 1887. All the accounts which have been pre- 
sented for payment have been discharged by the Society, 
and at the time of closing the books there are subscriptions, 
<foc., owing by members amounting to £69 6s. Od., as well as 
sums owing to the Society for the use of rooms. To bring 
Peoceedings— Lit. & Phil, ^oc.—Vol. XXVI.— No. 11.— Session 1886-7. 
