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also granted to Mr. Ogg, for a course of seven Lectures 

 on subjects of Natural Philosophy, to which your Members 

 had free admission. 



The General Meetings continue to excite their accus- 

 tomed interest. The attendance of Members on these 

 occasions has been undiminished. It cannot, however, have 

 escaped your notice that the discussions, which formerly 

 occupied a prominent part of the business of the ordinary 

 meetings, have in some measure languished, in many instances 

 having been wholly omitted. It is unnecessary to remind 

 you, that a proposition was submitted at the last Annual 

 Meeting, to require an immediate and final adjournment 

 after the reading of each paper. 



Your Council, however, sincerely hope, since your 

 Society has determined that the discussions should be 

 continued, agreeably with the original intention of the 

 founders of the institution, that those gentlemen who are 

 so well qualified to contribute to their support, will in 

 future afibrd their best exertions, to infuse new vigour and 

 interest into this very important and attractive part of the 

 proceedings of your General Meetings. 



At the commencement of the present Session your Coun- 

 cil congratulated themselves and the Society on the prospect 

 of an uninterrupted series of papers until its close. Subse- 

 quent experience, however, proved to them that they were 

 not exempt from the influence of those disappointing vicis- 

 situdes of which human life afibrds such frequent illustra- 

 tions. In consequence of these, their arrangements were, 

 in some instances, considerably modified. The following 

 papers were read in the annexed order, at the several 

 meetings:— 



