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Report ok the Secretary and Lii-.rakian, Samuel IIensiiaw. 
Membership. 
Nineteen Corporate members have been elected by the Council 
during the past year; five have died, one has resigned and one 
has been dropped for non-payment of dues. One Honorary 
member, Leonard Blomefield, and two Corresponding members, 
Edward Norton and Carl Semper, have died. Franklin Haven,' 
a Patron, has died. By the death of Leonard Blomefield we have 
lost one of the earliest of o.ir Honorary members ; there are but 
two Corporate members on our list to-day that were members of 
the Society when Mr. Blomefield was elected, August 21, LS39. 
Tlie roll of the Society includes the names of IG Honorary, 
143 Corresponding, and 348 Corporate members, a total of 50G.' 
Though we have this year made a gain of ten in the list of our 
Corporate members, it is especially desirnble that attention sliould 
be called to the advantage of adding to our number, which has 
remained ])ractically stationary for several years. 
Meetings. 
Fourteen meetings have been held. They have been especially 
well sustained, the total attendance 987, giving an average of 70 
X)lus to a meeting, is more than has been recorded in any previous 
year. The largest attendance at any one meeting was 247, the 
smallest 27 ; tlie largest last year was 9;') nndthe sm-dlest 31 ; four 
meetings this year have had an attendance of more than one liun- 
dred, an event unrecorded in the annals of recent years. 
Twenty-nine communications have been made by twenty-sexen 
persons. 
Library. 
The additions to tlie library are as follows : 
8vo. 4to. Folio. 'J'otal. 
Volumes. 325 52 4 .'isi 
P'-^ns 1,851 424 3 2,278 
Pamphlets. 350 42 399 
Maps, [)liotogra))lis, etc. ' j^^ 
Total, 3,069 
The total 3. OC.il exceeds the number recorded in any previous 
year. 
