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Annual General Meeting, April 29th, 1879. 
J. P. Joule, D.C.L., LL.D, F.R.S., fee., President, in the 
Chair. 
Report of the Council , April, 1879. 
The annual statement of the Treasurer appended to this 
report shows that the expenditure of the Society during the 
year ending 81st March last, has considerably exceeded the 
income, owing principally to an unusually heavy outlay for 
books and book-binding. The balance against the General 
Fund Account has increased from £10 14s. 4d. to £113 Os. 
lid. There is also a balance of £3 9s. Id. against the 
Natural History Fund Account ; and deducting these two 
sums from the Compounders’ Fund, £125, there is a balance 
of £8 10s. in favour of the Society on the 1st of April, 
1879. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the Society 
on the 1st of April, 1878, was 157, and eight new members 
have since been elected : the losses are- — deaths 2 : resign- 
' o 
ations 2 ; defaulter 1. The number on the roll on the 1st 
instant was 160. The deceased members are Mr. Thomas 
Livesey aud Mr. James Me. Connell. Since the above- 
mentioned date notice has been received of the death of 
Mr. Robert Stuart, the oldest member of the Society, he 
having been elected on January 21st, 1814. 
It was stated in the last annual report that the N atural 
History Fund of £1500, presented by the late Natural His- 
tory Society, had been received from the Trustees of the 
Owens College by' the Treasurer, and that the Council had 
given instructions for its investment in any of the stocks or 
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