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The Council would recommend to their successors 

 a following out the plan with regard to Lectures which 

 has been pursued this Session, namely, to prevail upon 

 one or more of the Members, — many of whom are so 

 competent, to deliver a gratuitous Course of Lectures, 

 upon a subject with which they are familiar, and then 

 to engage some one eminent professional Lecturer for 

 a single Course, by which it is hoped a sufficient sum 

 will be placed at their disposal to secure the services of 

 a first-rate man, without pressing unduly upon the 

 funds of the Society, and yet that the interest of the 

 Members through the entire Session shall be sustained. 

 Indeed, the Council has pleasure in stating that they 

 have so far obtained the consent of two gentlemen, 

 each to give a course of Lectures during next Session, 

 as to leave to their successors little more than the con- 

 firming the proposition. 



But few additions have been made to the Library 

 or Museum during the past year. The Donations 

 have been more scanty than usual. One valuable 

 present the Society has, however, received in the 

 Statue of the late Mr. M. T. Sadler, who was in 

 the earlier years of the Society one of its active Mem- 

 bers, and who for long was upon the Council. For 

 this the Society is indebted to the liberality of the 

 artist, Mr. Park, who has engaged to come from 



