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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
Annual Meeting, held 17th January, 1894, at 20 Hanover Square, W. 
The President (A. D. Michael, Esq., F.L.S.) in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the Meeting of 20th December last were read and 
confirmed, and were signed by the President. 
The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) 
received since the last meeting was read, and the thanks of the Society 
were voted to the donors. 
Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Canada. Vol. v., 
1890-1. (8vo, Ottawa, 1893) 
Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1887-8. 
(8vo, Washington, 1892) * 
R. Braithwaite, The British Moss Flora. Part xv. (4to, London, 
1893) 
From 
The Survey. 
The Smithsonian 
Institution. 
The Author. 
Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell then read the Annual Report of the Council 
for the past year as follows : — 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1893. 
Fellows . — During the year 1893, 37 new Fellows, or distinctly more 
than the average of the last two years, were elected, whilst 12 have died 
and 27 resigned; the number of resignations is therefore declining. 
One Honorary Fellow, Prof. Oscar Hertwig of Berlin, the distin- 
guished embryologist, was elected in place of Prof. Herman Fol, who is 
believed to have been lost at sea. 
Among the Ex-officio Fellows who have died, the Council regret to 
find the name of Prof. Milnes Marshall, President of the Manchester 
Microscopical Society, one of the editors of the * Quarterly Journal of 
Microscopical Science.’ 
The List of Fellows now" contains the names of 620 Ordinary, 
1 Corresponding, 50 Honorary, and 86 Ex-officio; or a total of 757. 
Finances . — It is with extreme regret that the Council have to roport 
that the annual income from subscriptions is considerably below that of 
many previous years. The Council earnestly impress upon the Fellows 
the great necessity for a prompt payment of the annual fees, as the 
Society has to depend principally upon this source of income for the 
means to meet their very heavy expenses. Had the full amount of sub- 
scriptions due for 1893 been duly paid, the Society’s income from this 
source would have been almost 20 per cent, more than it actually was. 
The Council have great pleasure in announcing that the amount 
obtained by the sale of the Journal continues to increase. They received 
from their publishers 342/. 9s. 10 d., as against 361/. 12s. 4 d. paid in the 
previous year ; but of this latter sum 48/. 15s. was overpaid in 1892, 
and would otherwise have been received this year. The real increase 
for 1893 is therefore 78/. 7s. 6d. over that of last year. 
Booms . — The Council note with regret that the Fellows appear to 
take but slight advantage of the arrangement by which the Library is 
open on Wednesday evenings; they trust that by calling the attention 
