28 
To Subscriptions 
LIFE MEMBERSHIP FUND. 
£ s. cl. 
.. 10 0 0 By advance to General Fund, 
1897 . 
„ advance to General Fund, 
1899 . 
£10 0 0 
£ s. d. 
5 0 0 
5 0 0 
£10 0 0 
PUBLICATION FUND. 
£ s. d. 
To Donations and Subscrip¬ 
tions .. .. .. 20 1 0 
£20 1 0 
£ s. d 
By Printing Transactions and 
part of London Fauna 
List .19 4 0 
,, Printing Balance Sheet .. 0 9 6 
,, Petty Expenses .. .. 0 0 8 
,, Balance in hand .. .. 0 6 10 
£20 1 0 
London Institution, 4th December, 1900. 
C. Nicholson, Hon. Treat. 
Examined and found correct. 
A. Bacot ) i 
-rj -r-i a [Auditors, 
V. Eric Shawm 
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, 
By Louis B. Prout, F.E.S. 
Gentlemen,— 
The completion of another year’s work in connection with our 
Society reminds us that the time has arrived for one of those annual 
retrospective and prospective surveys which have come to be considered 
as an appropriate, if not indeed a necessary, accompaniment of such 
occasions. In looking back over the past year, I feel impelled to thank 
you first of all for the many tokens of your friendly regard and 
sympathy which have marked its course, and especially for the latest 
manifestation of these in the honour which you have now shown me 
in again re-electing me to the position which you have made it so easy 
and pleasant for me to occupy for the last two years. I only hope 
that I shall be able to show myself worthy of your continued confidence, 
but I will venture to couple with this the further hope that any success 
which I may achieve will not make you hesitate to place any other 
suitable member in the Chair whensoever it may appear to you desirable, 
and to find for me any other office in which you consider I could serve 
you to greater advantage. The aim of us all, I trust, is to make our 
Society healthy and prosperous, and worthy still to hold that almost 
unique position which—as I reminded you just a twelvemonth ago— 
we have held for the closing decades of the century which is now on 
the point of expiring. 
The year 1900 has, I believe, been marked by the usual measure 
