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of the same will not admit of delay. From the want 

 of such a provision during the past Session, the Council 

 have to regret the loss of perhaps one of the most 

 perfect specimens of Ichthyosaurus ever exhumed, and 

 which has, in consequence, gone to enrich a foreign 

 museum. The Council are fully sensible that the 

 present times are not favourable to the carrying out 

 of the above suggestion; they, nevertheless, venture 

 to record their opinion on this point, in the hope 

 that a more favourable period may arrive when so de- 

 sirable a result shall be realised. 



The Library continues to receive the Reports of 

 various provincial institutions, as well as the Proceedings 

 and Transactions of some of the leading* scientific bodies 

 in America. The principal additions during the Session 

 consist of a splendid bound copy of Luther's Bible, 

 presented by Mr. Brian ; and the Magnetical and 

 Meteorological Observations at St. Helena, presented 

 by the British Government. It would afford the 

 Council great satisfaction to see the Library of the 

 Society considerably augmented by the addition of 

 numerous works of standard scientific merit, the pro- 

 ductions both of our own and foreign authors, from a 

 conviction that a more extensive Library would con- 

 duce materially not only to the general usefulness, 

 but also to the attractions, of the Society, and be the 

 means of increasing the number of its supporters. 



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