the Council would suggest to their successors the ad- 

 vantage of continuing these interesting reunions. 



With respect to the finances of the Society, the 

 Council are unable to announce any improvement. 

 Tlie depressed state of trade has had an unfavourable 

 influence, both as regards the addition of new Members 

 and Subscribers, and in retarding the collection of sub- 

 scriptions. This cause, it is earnestly hoped, will be of 

 temporary duration, and that an increase of its sup- 

 porters will enable the Society to extend its operations 

 and usefulness. They would observe, however, that in 

 accordance with the suggestion of their predecessors, 

 economy has been practised in every department, as far 

 as it was thought advisable for the well-being of the 

 Society. The purchase of books has been entirely 

 confined to those periodicals and transactions of which 

 the Society are in possession of a long and valuable 

 series, and whose future value would be materially 

 deteriorated by their discontinuance. 



Although the low state of the Society's funds has 

 not justified the application of any part of them to the 

 purchase of specimens for the Museum, the collection 

 has, nevertheless, received many important additions, for 

 which the Society is indebted to the liberality of several 

 of its Members, who, at their own cost, have enriched 

 its valuable stores to an extent, perhaps, never equalled 

 in any former Session. Among the donations now 

 alluded to, there are some which demand particular 



