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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, Vol. 29: January to December, 1907 The beginning of the Thirty-seventh Session of the Society finds us with a heavier death roll than usual, no fewer than thirteen Members having been removed by death since the Council's last Report. Among these may be specially mentioned Mr. John Edward Gilmore, k.c., who of late years was in the habit of spending the winter in Egypt, where he collected many fragments of Bibles and lectionaries in Coptic. Many of these relics of a fast vanishing literature were Of considerable im portance, and attention may be specially drawn to the Sahidic fragments published by him in the Proceedings of 1898, which include readings of the Pauline epistles not to be found elsewhere. We also have to deplore the death of Mr. R. P. Greg, a numismatist of distinction, who no later than last year was a contributor to the Society's Donation Fund. In addition to these losses, the Council regret the resignation, from various causes, of five Members. This is more than compensated by the election of eight new ones, but the balance is against the Society, which now numbers 400 Members as against 410 at the presentation of the last Report. Although, as will be seen, this is mainly due to a greater loss by death than in former years, the Council cannot but view any falling off in our numbers with apprehension, and would call upon the Members to do all they Can to obtain recruits. It cannot be too often impressed upon every body concerned that all the services of the Society's officials are rendered without remuneration, and that intending Members may therefore calca late upon receiving the fullest value for their subscriptions. But the Society is reaching the critical period of its existence, and as all those who were interested in its foundation are in the course of nature passing away, it is only by the discovery of new Members given to the same studies, that its traditions can be worthily