COUNCIL FOR 184;^. 9 



The Annual Horticultural F^te, under the judicious Management 

 of a Committee of the Members of the Society, took place on the 

 third of August, and afforded the highest gratification to the inha- 

 bitants of the City, as well as to the numerous Country families, who 

 were drawn hither by the Meeting of the Agricultural Society. 

 Favoured by a propitious day, the attendance was more numerous 

 than on any former occasion, and the receipts, after deducting the 

 necessary expenses, amounted to about £115. This casual accession 

 of income has enabled the Council to complete the laying out of the 

 grounds near the Hospitium, and to form the drain there ; a work 

 which had long been considered almost absolutely necessary. 



In addition to this, the Gardens have been generally improved, 

 and the stock of Plants greatly increased. An improvement has 

 been effected in the Hothouse, by which that building has been 

 made more available to the healthy growth of the valuable Collection 

 of Orchideous Plants, now possessed by the Society, and which has 

 been considerably increased by donations during the past year. 

 Encouraged by the general prospect of the Society's finances, and 

 looking to the continued success of future Horticultural exhibitions, 

 the Council hope to be enabled to render the Gardens still more 

 attractive. 



The . Geological Collection has been enriched by the donation of 

 several hundred examples of Organic Remains, and the Council 

 have more pleasure in announcing this fact, because these additions 

 are exactly in those parts of the series of Palaeozoic organization, 

 which are at this moment of special Geological interest, and which 

 were imperfectly represented in the Cabinets. The contributions to 

 the Silurian series from North America, through the continued kind- 

 ness of Mr. Jos. Clarke of Cincinnati, are extremely important, and 

 contain many very interesting forms of Polypiaria, Crinoidea, Con- 

 chifera. Cephalopoda, and Crustacea. Mr. Hatfeild, whose travels 

 into remote parts of the world have always been the means of 

 enriching the Museum, in which he has laboured when at home, has 

 sent a choice selection of Organic Remains from the Silurian, 

 Carboniferous, and Cretaceous groups of the United States, ex- 

 hibiting on the whole a marked general analogy with the contem- 

 poraneous forms imbedded in Exiropean Strata, and, at the same 

 time, those lesser differences and variations of structure which are 



