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REPORT OE THE COUNCIL EOR 1860 . 
for a Fourtli Antiquarian Walk tlirough A^ork.” During the 
same period Mr. Dallas delivered a series of four lectures on 
The Inhabitants of a Pond; ” Professor Morris two on 
Palaeozoic Geology; ” and the Pev. Thos. Hincks two on 
Shells and their Inhabitants.” The list of lectures given in 
the autumn session includes tvv^o by Mr. Procter^ on The 
Chemistry of Combustion and Illumination/’ which were illus¬ 
trated by numerous and interesting experiments ; one by the 
Pev. Thomas Myers, on “ The Languages and Philosophies of 
India; ” one by Mr. Alfred Ball, on “ Insect Architecture; ” 
one by the Pev. Jas. Paine, on The Libraries and Literary 
Men of the North of England in the Olden Time; ” and one 
on Cell Formation,” by Mr. S. W. North. Abstracts of the 
papers read at the Monthly Meetings of the Society will be 
appended to this Peport. 
The number of new members elected since the last Annual 
Meeting has been eighteen, of whom two are compounders. 
The loss of members by death or resignation, during the same 
period, has been fifteen, two of whom had compounded for 
their annual subscriptions, and thus the actual increase in the 
number of paying members is only two for the years 1860—1861. 
Of lady subscribers four were admitted during the past year, 
but, of these, two have already resigned, together with four 
others, whilst two have been lost by death; thus the number of 
ladv subscribers exhibits a diminution of four. Two associates 
have been elected, and the loss by death and resignation has 
been three. Thus, as regards the number of its members, and 
the income to be obtained from this source, the Society remains 
much in the same position as at the time of the last Peport. 
The Council propose the Pt. Hon. Lord Brougham as an 
Honorary Member of the Society—a Nobleman, whose eminent 
and varied talents have been employed during a long life in 
promoting the diffusion of knowledge, and the improvement of 
social institutions, and who continues, in an advanced age, that 
devotion to science which gained an early celebrity to his name. 
Three members of the Council, namely, the Pev. Isaac 
Spencer, Mr. J. P. Pritchett, and Mr. S. AY. North, retire by 
rotation. 
