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In accordance with the Financial Report of the last 

 Session, the Council did not feel justified or called upon 

 to eng-age any professional Lecturers. 



The gratitude of the Society is eminently due to the 

 gentlemen who gave their time and talents for the prepara- 



tion of the following Courses of Lectures : — 



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Four Lectures " On the Structure and Functions of the Brain and 

 Nervous System in Man and the Inferior Animals," — by Mr. 

 Nunneley. 



Three Lectures by Mr. West, *' On Chemical Analysis" ,,^,,^ 



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? A Course of Lectures was promised by the Rev. T)t 

 Hamilton, one of the Vice-presidents, but the state of his 

 health rendered it imperatively necessary that the delivery 

 of the Lectures should be deferred. The Council hope 

 that the health of this valued and constant friend of the 

 Society will speedily be restored, and that the Society will 

 yet have the benefit of his Lectures at an early period. 



It is hoped that, during the ensuing Session, the 

 improved state of the finances of the Society will enable 

 the succeeding Council to present to the Members at least 

 Two Courses of Lectures of more than usual attraction. 



The attendance at the Papers and Lectures was,on th e 

 average, equal to that of former Sessions. 



The Council cannot congratulate the Society on any 

 considerable accessions to the Museum during the last 

 Session, as it is too evident that the application for 

 pecuniary assistance for more important purposes has 

 diverted the sources which have in other Sessions enriched 



