FIFTH REPORT. 



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In conformity with a resolution adopted at 

 last Annual Meeting, the Fifth Anniversary of 

 this Institution is held in the close of the pre- 

 sent month (October), instead of being kept, 

 as hitherto, at the commencement of the new 

 year. In consequence of this arrangement, 

 little more than nine months have elapsed 

 since our last Anniversary, and the proceed- 

 ings of that period only are now to be report- 

 ed by your Council. But although the period 

 of their service has been thus abridged, the 

 matters which they have to report are not less 

 interesting than the transactions of former 

 years. 



A few weeks after the last Anniversary, we 

 were deprived of the valuable services of one 

 of your Secretaries, Mr. Andrew Sanders ; 

 who, having gone to reside at Stockton, re- 

 signed his office, the duties of which he had 

 discharged during four years, with fidelity, 

 diligence, and zeal. At a general Meeting of 

 the Society held soon after, on the 16th day 

 of March, thanks were unanimously voted to 

 Mr. Sanders, for his esteemed services; and 

 Mr. Richard Ripley, who had frequently as- 

 sisted the Secretaries in their labours, was 



