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Report of the Committee. 



July 28, 1882. 



Your Committee, in presenting the Seventeenth Annual Report, 

 feel bound to record that the past year, though not devoid of good 

 work, has been characterized by an absence of general activity, for 

 which it is difficult to account. 



The number of our members still keeps up to the average of the 

 last few years. We have, however, to regret the loss by death of 

 four members, Mr. W. Atkinson, Mr. W. W. Hewitt, the Rev. W. 

 M. Hutton, and Mr. W. Moginie. 



Two of these gentlemen came but little amongst us, but Mr. 

 Hewitt was well known to many of us in former years, principally 

 by his long connection with the late Mr. Andrew and Mr. Thomas 

 Ross. Mr. Moginie was one of our early members, and was much 

 esteemed, both for his amiability and genial manners, and for the 

 great mechanical skill with which he devised many microscopical and 

 other appliances. 



The resignation of 17 members, the erasure of 7 for failure in 

 payment of several years' subscription, and the election of 31 new 

 members, leaves our present number 616. 



The jmpers read at our meetings have been unusually few. The 

 following is a list : — 



1881. 



Aug. 26. " On Fluid Cavities in Meteorites," by Mr. Heinrich 

 Hensoldt. 



Sept. 23. " On the Injection of Specimens for Microscopical Ex- 

 amination," by the President. 



Nov. 25. "On the Structure and Division of the Vegetable Cell," 

 by Mr. W. H. Gilburt. 



Dec. 27. " On an Improved Compressorium," by Mr. J. D, 

 Hardy. 



