REPORT 



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Wl)t Council 



TO THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 



ON THE 1st of FEBRUARY, 1831. 



In the last Report of the Council a confident expectation 

 was expressed, that in occupying the new museum, the 

 Society might promise itself, from the enlarged scale of 

 its establishment, a great advancement of its objects, and 

 a wider field of public utility. 



The lapse of a year already brings proof that such an 

 expectation was not unfounded ; and the Council refer the 

 Meeting for the most striking evidence of the extensive 

 interest excited by the Institution to the fact, that the 

 Admissions of Visitors for nine months during which the 

 books have been regularly kept, have amounted to nearly 

 four thousand, exclusive of the unrecorded visits of the 

 Members and their families. 



In the number of those whose curiosity has thus been gra- 

 tified, or whose investigations have been assisted, there are 

 some from distant countries. And, whether it be desirable 



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