PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
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this year 12 communications, as against 11 last year, and are illustrated 
by 12 as against 10 plates. More papers would have been communi- 
cated had not two meetings during the past year been dies non , for the 
meeting of January was adjourned as a mark of respect to the funeral of 
H.R.H. the late Duke of Clarence, eldest son of H.R.H. our Patron ; 
and the December meeting was similarly adjourned as a sign of the 
regret which the Society felt at the death a few days previously of 
Sir Richard Owen, its first President. 
Conversazione . — The Council are happy to report that the change in 
the form of the Conversazione appears to have met with the approbation 
of the Fellows and their friends. The Conversazione was held on 
November 30th, and passed off very successfully, and to the satisfaction 
of those who attended. There were 68 exhibitors and about 321 visitors. 
The Council have to express their best thanks to all who assisted at the 
meeting, and especially are they grateful for the liberal supply of lamps, 
for which they are indebted to the kindness of Messrs. Baker. 
Treasurer . — It is with great regret that the Council have to announce 
to the Fellows that the many calls on the time of the present Treasurer 
make it imperative for him to resign his post. It is now nineteen years 
since Mr. Crisp was first associated with the Society as one of its 
officers, and it has been during these years that the Society has increased 
so much in numbers and in public estimation. If the Society will, as it 
assuredly will, elect him as one of its Vice-Presidents, it will still have 
the great benefit of his advice and experience ; but the Council, as the 
spokesman of the Society, is bound to give especial prominence to a 
grateful recognition of the many services of many kinds which Mr. Crisp 
has rendered it. It is a source of satisfaction to the Council that it has 
been able to find a Fellow, well known to the attendants at the meetings, 
fully conversant with the affairs of the Society, and of high position in 
the City of London, who is willing to offer himself for election in place 
of Mr. Crisp. 
The adoption of the Report having been moved by Mr. G. C. Karop, 
and seconded by Mr. J. M. Allen, was put to the meeting by the Presi- 
dent and carried unanimously. 
The Treasurer (Mr. Frank Crisp) then read the Annual Statement 
of Accouuts and submitted the Balance-sheet for the year 1892, duly 
audited by Messrs. J. M. Allen and W. T. Suffolk, who were appointed 
for the purpose at the preceding meeting. 
Mr; A. D. Michael said he rose to move the adoption of the 
Treasurer’s Report and Balance-sheet, but felt that he could not do so 
without expressing his sense of the extreme debt of gratitude which they 
owed to Mr. Crisp for his services to the Society, not only during the 
past year, but also during so many years which preceded it, services 
which had been so admirably performed, and had tended so greatly 
to the benefit of the Society. 
Mr. J. J. Vezey having seconded the motion, it was put from the 
vhair, and carried by acclamation. 
