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a temporary and fluctuating one, it lias been thought better that, for the 
future, their election should, be for the session only, and that their num¬ 
bers should not be included in those of the permanent Members of the 
Society. 
The Members of the Society now, as compared with the correspond¬ 
ing numbers at the close of last year, will stand as follows:— 
1857. 1858. 
Honorary Members,.4 4 
Honorary Corresponding Members . . 3 3 
Life Members,.52* 58 
Annual Subscribers,.86* 90 
145 155 
Omitting the Associates, the Society seems to be regularly enlarging 
the numbers of its Members at the rate of about ten per annum. 
Among the Members lost to the Society, the one most deeply to be 
regretted is Eobert Ball, LL. D., formerly Secretary and President of 
the Society; whose sudden and lamented death deprived us, in com¬ 
mon with the whole scientific public of Dublin, of one equally charac¬ 
terized by intellectual ability, high personal character, and kindly 
disposition, and who had for many years rendered services of the highest 
value to the Society. 
Among our other losses are some who, having paid their arrears of 
subscription, have, to our regret, withdrawn from the Society, and others 
whose names have been removed from our books in consequence of those 
arrears not having been paid. Your Council will not seek to conceal 
from you that there are still retained on the books the names of several 
persons which must, in like manner, shortly be removed if those arrears 
are not paid up. 
They have no doubt that these arrears of unpaid subscriptions are 
the result of oversight in the first instance; and would observe, that it 
would greatly conduce to the welfare of the Society if the subscriptions 
were always regularly paid soon after they became due. 
Your Council have much satisfaction in calling your attention to 
the soundness of the financial condition of the Society, owing to the 
strenuous efforts that have been made to reduce the expenses ; remark¬ 
ing, however, at the same time, that increased funds would enable them 
to increase the value and utility of the Society both to the Members and 
to the public. 
Your Council would congratulate the Society on the change of their 
place of meeting, and call your attention to the far greater comfort 
and convenience with which the Evening Meetings are now held than 
formerly. They desire to record, on their own behalf and that of the 
Society at large, their sense of obligation to the Board of Trinity Col¬ 
lege, for the permission to hold their Evening Meetings in the new 
One of each of these classes was omitted by mistake last year. 
