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Animal Meeting, April 29th, 1873. 
E, W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., Yiee-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 a further 
improvement has taken place in the financial position of the 
Society, the Treasurer’s account showing that the general 
balance on the 31st of March last was £407 Is. 4d, against 
£340 Os. 3Jd. on the 31st of March, 1872. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the 
Society on the 1st of April, 1872, was 174, and six new 
members have since been elected ; the losses are, deaths, 4 ; 
resignations, 4 ; and defaulters, 3. The number on the roll 
on the 1st of April instant was, therefore, 169. The deceased 
members are John Francis, George Cliff Lowe, Samuel 
Emanuel Nelson, and Joseph Jordan. 
Mr, George Cliff Lowe, whose death was the result of an 
accident in the United States, was known to many of our 
members for his general and accurate acquaintance with the 
natural sciences, but more particularly that of astronomy. 
Possessing a love of knowledge for its own sake, and a 
comprehensiveness of mind to deal with other besides purely 
physical subjects, he took great interest in the leading philo- 
sophical questions of the present time, and his opinions were 
generally to be found on the side of progress. Although not 
a frequent contributor to the literature of science, Mr. Lowe 
had an acuteness of perception combined with a degree of 
manipulative and artistic skill which made his co-operation 
and judgment much valued and sought for by others. 
We thus find Mr. Lowe’s name associated with that of 
Professor F. C. Calvert, F.R.S., in a joint paper “ On the Ex- 
pansion of Metals and Alloys,” published in the Proceedings 
Peoceedinos— Lit. & Phil, Society.—' Vol. XII —No. 12— Session 1S72-3. 
