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Annual Meeting, April 20th, 187|t. 
Dr. SCHUNCK, F.KS., F.C.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following Report of the Council was read by one of 
the Secretaries : — 
The Council have the satisfaction to report that the 
proceedings taken for procuring the Incorporation of the 
Society under the ‘‘Companies Acts, 1862 and 1867,” in 
accordance with the resolution passed at the Annual Meeting 
held on the 13th of April, 1873, have been completed, and 
that a Certificate of Registration of the Incorporation of 
the Society was granted by the Registrar of Joint Stock 
Companies on the 22nd of March, 1875. Copies of the 
Memorandum and Articles of Association have been printed 
for distribution among the members of the Society. 
The Treasurer’s account shows that the expenditure 
during the year ending March 31st, 1875, was £57 3s. lOd. 
in excess of the income. This excess, however, is attribut- 
able to extra expenses for providing new book-shelving, re- 
arranging the library, binding a large number of books, and 
preparing a new catalogue. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the Society 
on the 1st of April, 1874, was 171, and 8 new members have 
since been elected ; the losses are — deaths, 4 ; resignations, 
5 ; and defaulters, 2. The number on the roll on the 1st of 
April instant was, therefore, 168. The deceased members 
are Thomas Standring, Sir William Fairbairn, Bart., T. T. 
Wilkinson, and Robert Hyde Greg. 
Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Soc.— Vol. XIV.— No. 12.— Session 1874-75. 
