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should be attempted But whilst the Council think it prudent 

 to recommend this course, they must remind the Meeting, that 

 it would require a long course of years to dischai^e the incum- 

 brance by so tardy a process ; and considering' the place 

 which the Institution now holds in the opinion of the public, 

 they hope that it will be relieved from these difficulties by 

 more speedy means. Forming part, as it now does, of a 

 system which promises, ere long, to bring again within the 

 area of this Museum an array of all that is distinguished in 

 British Science, it may justly expect that be&re the time 

 arrives when the national Association shall "return in its 

 periodical revolution, to the point of its first attraction," an 

 object so important to the character and exertions of the 

 Society will be accomplished, and that it will be rendered in 

 all respects worthy to be numbered among the efficient scien- 

 tific establishments of the country. 



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