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from the graver of Mr. Henry Denny, the Sub-Curator. 

 The Council anticipate that the publication will be ih 

 everyway worthy of the Society, and remind the members 

 at large that it depends entirely on themselves to prevent 

 its being a source of pecuniary loss. 



At the last Annual Meeting, the Council, at the close 

 of their report, called the attention of the Society to 

 some important alterations which had taken place in their 

 external relations. The retiring Council have devoted 

 much anxious consideration to the subject, and have 

 entered, in conjunction with other parties, into laborious 

 investigations of its bearings : the result of protracted 

 negociations has not been the formation of any plan 

 which the Council could recommend to the adoption of 

 the Society. They have, therefore, confined themselves 

 to the suggestion of some internal alterations not much 

 interfering with the constitution as at present established, 

 and which present the advantage of being, at least, not 

 absolutely irrevocable, should they be adopted and found 

 not to answer the expectations under which they have 

 been proposed. 



Trusting that, whatever may be the immediate result 

 of the deliberations on these important questions, it may 

 be such as will ensure the prosperity, and extend the 

 utility of the Society, the Council now resign the 

 administration of its affairs into the hands of those whom 

 it is the first business of the meeting to appoint as their 

 successors. 



