REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1883. 
[Read at the Fourth Annual General Meeting , held at 
Buckhurst Hill, January 26tli, 1884.'] 
In presenting the 4th Annual Report the Council has great pleasure in 
congratulating the members on the continued prosperity of the Club; 
the work on the whole having been successfully and pleasantly carried on 
during the past year. 
Roll of Members. —The number of ordinary members elected into 
the Club in 1883 was 52, and two Honorary Members were chosen; 
23 members have resigned or have been removed from the list, and we 
have to regret the loss of three members by death. Two members have 
compounded for their annual subscriptions. The census of the Club at 
the end of the years 1882 and 1883 respectively, was therefore as 
follows:— 
Patron.. 
1882. 
. 1 .., 
1883. 
1 
Hon. members. 
. 10 .., 
.. .. 12 
T.ifp members . 
. 13 .., 
.. .. 15 
Ordinary members. 
. 330 ... 
.... 354 
354 
382 
It is very desirable that the Club should possess a permanent and paying 
constituency of at least 400 members in order that the publications may 
keep pace with the activity of the Society. It is also important that the 
number of members living in the county should be increased, and the 
friends of the Club are desired to do all in their power to increase that 
class of members. 
Some doubt seeming to exist as to the law of the Club with regard to 
Resignations, the Council thinks it right to point out that the rule 
reprinted below is a very necessary one, and must be enforced in the 
interests of the officers. The list of members must be fully made up 
before the 1st of January in each year to avoid confusion, and to enable 
the Council to form a trustworthy estimate of the income for the ensuing 
year. The Rule is as follows:— 
“XI.—Members wishing to resign at the termination of any year are 
requested to inform the Secretary, in writing, of their intention to do so, 
on or before the first day of November of that year, and members not so 
resigning shall be considered liable for the subscription for the year next 
ensuing.” 
