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 The following Officers and Councillors are elected:—

President, Ven. Arch. G. F. Hose,

Vice-President

Penang, Hon. C. J. Irving.

Singapore, Major S. Dunlop.

Honorary Secretary, A. M. Skinner, Esq.

Honorary Treasurer, J. Miller Esq.

E. Bieber, Esq.,

N. B. Dennys, Esq., Ph D,

E. Koek, Esq.

D. F. A, Hervey, Esq.

R. W. Hullett, Esq.,

A vote of thanks to the Honorary Secretary for his services during the year having been put and carried, the Meeting separates.

Read at the Annual Meeting held on the 13th January, 1879.

In presenting to the Straits Asiatic Society their first Annual Report, the Council are glad of the opportunity to review briefly the steps which have been made to consolidate and extend the work of the Society, since the first General Meeting of January 21st.

It is satisfactory to record that the accession of new members has steadily continued, and at the present time the Society may congratulate itself upon numbering in all 158 Members, viz:—

The Patron (an office H. E. the Governor was pleased to accept last August.)

4 Honorary Members (the Raja of Sarawak, Messrs. Maclay, Favre and J. Perham.)

153 Ordinary Members (including the Officers and Councillors.)

In March, the Royal Asiatic Society, the parent of many branches, communicated its willingness to allow the Society to be affiliated to it in the usual manner.