THE COUNCIL. 



Mr. Jonathan Gray will long be dear to a larger circle than 

 our own ; the public voice may raise a tribute to a worthy 

 citizen, but all that here surrounds us is a lasting monument 

 of our philosophic friend. 



Pressed by the weight of professional business, Mr. Wm. 

 Gray, jun. has found it necessary to withdraw that active 

 assistance which for eleven years he has rendered as Secre- 

 tary to the Institution. 



From causes nearly similar, Professor Phillips, at an earlier 

 period of the year, finding it impossible to give his attention 

 to the Society's affairs for the period, or at the times, stipulated 

 in the arrangement commenced in 1825, replaced in the 

 hands of the Society the trust which had been committed to 

 him ; — ^but the Council, unwilling to break a connexion which 

 has now subsisted for twelve years, proposed to him to con- 

 tinue the general direction of the scientific affairs of the So- 

 ciety, without any limitation as to time. 



The Council has requested Mr. Robert Davies to accept 

 the office of Treasurer, and Mr. H. Robinson to act as joint 

 Secretary with Professor Phillips ; nominations which, from 

 the high character of those gentlemen, the Council entertains 

 no doubt this meeting will confirm. 



The expenditure of the year has been great ; but much that 

 was required to be done has been accomplished ; and there 

 has been no waste. Independently of an augmentation of the 

 salary of the Sub-curator, which has indeed been fully repaid 

 by the additional duties undertaken and executed by him ; 

 the finances have had to bear the cost of a portion of the new 

 insect cabinets, of the fitting up of the shelves for the col- 

 lections of plants, of mounting the skeletons of the whale 

 and the Irish elk, of repairing the Roman and monastic walls, 

 and constructing a small hothouse for plants of considerable 

 value. These things were necessary ; but the Council has 

 gone further, and for the first time during many years, has 

 expended in the purchase and preparation of specimens on 

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