REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



AT THE 



CLOSE OF THE NINTH SESSION. 



In presenting the Annual Report with which 

 the duties of the present Council terminate, it 

 gives them pleasure to state that the Society has 

 prospered during the Session. 



The Literar}' and Scientific transactions have 

 obtained a considerable share of public attention, 

 and have in every respect equalled those of former 

 Sessions. Nay, the Council would indulge the 

 hope, that those symptoms of improvement to which 

 we always looked forward, and which the Society 

 has so great a right to expect, have already begun 

 to manifest themselves. 



They of course feel the difficulty which must 

 ever attend any observations touching matters so 

 closely bordering upon personality. They are, 



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