EEPOET OP THE COUNCIL FOE THE YEAE 1882 . 
{Read at the Third Annual General Meeting, held at 
Buckhurst Rill, January 27tli, 1883.'] 
In accordance with the Enles, the Council has pleasure ifi presenting 
the 3rd Annual Report. 
The past year has proved a somewhat memorable one in the history 
of the Club. Not only has the Society increased in numbers, but the 
scientific assistance given to it, and the work done, have been of a solid 
and interesting nature. 
During the year 2 honorary members and 60 ordinary members were 
elected, of whom 3 have compounded for their annual subscriptions ; 13 
members have resigned ; 8 members have been removed for non-payment 
of subscriptions for two years or upwards, and two deaths have occurred. 
Although the work of Mr. Charles Darwin will form a large part of the 
subject-matter of the address from the chair, the Council may be here 
permitted to record its deep sense of the loss sustained by science in the 
death of our illustrious honorary member. 
The census of the Club at the end of the years 1881 and 1882 was 
therefore as follows :— 
1881. 1882. 
Patron. 1 1 
Honorary members . 9 10 
Life members. 10 13 
Ordinary members. 295 330 
315 354 
The net increase thus shown falls very short of that of the previous 
year, but the large accessions in 1881 were,.of course, exceptional, being 
connected with the recent establishment and success of the Society. The 
Council has put in force the rule as to forfeiture of membership for non¬ 
payment of subscription against eight members, but as these have never 
contributed to the funds their expulsion cannot be considered a loss to 
the Society. 
A voluminous part of the ‘ Transactions ’ (completing the second 
volume) was published in July, comprising, with appendices, 200 printed 
pages and one folding plate. Fifty-one woodcuts also illustrated the 
part, of which 17 were engraved at the expense of the Club, 31 were 
kindly lent by Messrs. West, Newman, and Co., two by Miss Ormerod, 
