During the past year meetings of the Board took place on the following dates: 21st August and 16th December, 1891; and 28th June, 1892.

The following gentlemen were elected to represent the incorporated societies in conformity with the Act: Messrs. J. McKerrow, F.R.A.S., S. Percy Smith, F.R.G.S., and E. Tregear, F.R.G.S.

The members who retired from the Board in conformity with clause 6 of the Act are Messrs. W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S., Thomas Mason, and W. M. Maskell, F.R.M.S.; and all these gentlemen were reappointed by His Excellency the Governor.

During the year the following gentlemen were elected honorary members of the Institute: Professor George Lincoln Goodale, M.D., LL.D., of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., and James W. Davis, F.G.S., F.L.S., Royal Society, Dublin.

The members now on the roll of the Institute are,—

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The volumes of Transactions now in stock are—Vol. I. (second edition), 260; Vol. V., 25; Vol. V., 25; Vol. VI., 25; Vol. 25; Vol. VII., 118; Vol. IX., 117; Vol. X., 150; Vol. XI., 40; Vol. XII., 43; Vol. XIII., 45; Vol. XIV., 65; Vol. XV., 180; Vol. XVI., 178; Vol. XVII., 180; Vol. XVIII., 160; Vol. XIX., 170; Vol. XX., 170; Vol. XXI., 100; Vol. XXII., 100; Vol. XXIII., 180; Vol. XXIV., not yet fully distributed.

The volume of the Transactions just published (XXIV.) was issued in June, and contains sixty-six articles, together with addresses and abstracts of papers which appear in the Proceedings. The volume contains 769 pages of letterpress and 51 plates. The following is a comparison of the contents of the present with that of last year's volume:—

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The cost of printing Vol. XXIII. was £296 12s. 6d. for 680 pages, and that for Vol. XXIV. £385 13s. 9d. for 769 pages.

The Honorary Treasurer's statement of accounts shows a balance in hand in current account of £86 10s. 1d.

The amount devoted to the printing of memoirs and postponed papers (in accordance with resolution of May, 1885) is now £700.

Approved by Board.

Robert Pharazyn

James Hector