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 FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.

the increasing difficulties caused by the long duration of the war, the Society has continued to hold its meetings during the past year, and generally they have been well attended.

Sixteen new members have been enrolled during the year, and three libraries have been added to the list of subscribers. On the other side of the account there have been nine deaths and twenty resignations, so that the members of the Society are diminished by ten, and there are now only 394 members and subscribers on the roll as against 404 a year ago.

Among the members who have died are Dr. Walker, Miss S. Morison, and Mr. Thurstan Peter, who was one of the very few representatives of the Society in the west country, where it is to be hoped that it may be more fully represented in the future than at present.

Considering the many and various calls the war has made on the energies of the country, the Council think the Society is to be congratulated on having kept its numbers at so high a level: and now that peace is well in sight, they hope that before they issue their next Annual Report the Society will be as flourishing as it was in its palmiest days.

The amount received in subscriptions during the year was £386 8s. 0d., which was £13 more than in 1917; and of this amount a larger proportion even than a year ago represented arrears.