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few more years it will so accumulate as to become 

 more and more difficult to remove. The retiring 

 Council would impress upon its successor, the pro- 

 priety of endeavouring, if possible, to devise some 

 method by which it may be paid off. 



The alterations in the Building and Museum, com- 

 menced two years since, have been now for some 

 time completed: annexed is a statement of the ex- 

 penditure, and also a list of the subscribers, by whose 

 liberality the funds were contributed. It is only an 

 act of justice, but one which your Council has much 

 pleasure in discharging, to state how deeply the So- 

 ciety is indebted to the Curator in Geology, J. G» 

 Marshall, Esq. for allowing the Society the advan- 

 tage of the constant superintendance, during the pro- 

 gress of the alterations in the building, of an able and 

 intelligent person in his own service; and also for 

 taking charge of all payments connected with the 

 work, from which two great advantages have resulted — 

 economy in the outlay, and efficiency in the construc- 

 tions. 



The printed copies of the Laws of the Society being 

 •disposed of, it has been thought desirable, previous to 

 the printing another edition, that the whole code 

 should be submitted to revision; accordingly, several 

 alterations and modifications in the Laws will be pro- 

 posed this morning; the great majority of which, 

 however, are merely verbal, or such as are rendered 



