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the year the meetings have been very fairly well attended. Until the close of the 1918–9 session in June they continued to be held at 5 p.m., but on the commencement of the new session in November the Council determined to revert to the pre-war hour of 8 p.m., which is believed to be most convenient to the majority of the members.

Fourteen new members have been enrolled during the year and three libraries have been added to the list of subscribers. Three members have died, one of whom, M. Emm. Cosquin, joined the Society so long ago as 1886. The resignations number 12. There are now 396 names on the roll of the Society as against 394 a year ago. The names of those residing in what until the Declaration of Peace were enemy countries are still upon the roll, but whether they will resume their subscriptions remains to be seen. There are more subscriptions in arrear than was the case a year ago, and the Council earnestly appeal to those in default to pay up what is due from them at the earliest opportunity.

A year ago the Council expressed the hope that before they issued their next report the Society would be in as flourishing a condition as in its palmiest days. If that hope has not been fulfilled there are not wanting signs of its fulfilment. It is indeed a matter for congratulation that the War has affected the Society so little, and now that Peace has been declared there is no reason why it should