The annual meeting of the above Society was held at No. 1, Yuenmingyuen Road on Tuesday. The President, Mr. J. Reginald Harding, was in the chair.
In proposing the adoption of the report of the Council, and statement of accounts, the Chairman said that as it was their fourth annual meeting he thought the Society might congratulate itself on the progress it had made and that members might feel assured that having passed through the probationary period the Society was now on a thoroughly sound basis. The membership had steadily increased; attendance at the meetings had improved and the papers read had maintained a high standard, while the finances were in a satisfactory condition, He referred to the indebtedness of the Society to their Honorary Secretary to whom this success was in a groat measure due. He regretted to have to record the deaths of five members, all of whom had taken a great interest in the Society. Two members having resigned and twenty-two new members having been elected the roll of the Society stood at 104 members, two Honorary Members, one Honorary Associate and two Students, a record satisfactory in all respects except that of students. He hoped that the prizes which the Society was about to offer would induce more students to join,
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