REPORT 



PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, 

 FEBRUARY 2nd. 1829. 



The Council have the satisfaction of presenting to the 

 Annual Meeting, the Grant from the Crown of three 

 acres of land, situated within the ancient precincts of the 

 Monastery of St. Mary, and including the remains of the 

 Abbey Church. The ground is assigned to Trustees for the 

 use of the Society, on condition that it shall be applied 

 partly to the maintenance of a botanic garden, and partly 

 as a site for buildings appropriated to the purposes of 

 science. The sign manual was first obtained soon after the 

 last Annual Meeting ; but the legal advisers of the Society 

 having stated an objection to the form of the grant, it was 

 engrossed anew, and received the royal signature a second 

 time. The Council advert to this circumstance, for the 

 purpose of remarking the enlightened attention which is 

 paid by the Government of this country to the interests of 

 science; an attention strikingly displayed in 'tlbe tittife»fin 

 indulgence with which the applications of Ihis Society have 



