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XN meeting the Society on the present occasion, the 

 Council have but Httle to report ; that little is however 

 of a pleasing and satisfactory character; more espe- 

 cially as regards the Museum, which is still under the 

 very efficient gratuitous and much needed remodeling 

 and relabeling operations of Mr. Martin Simpson : — 

 to the manifest improvement of every department which 

 he has touched — operations which will very greatly 

 faciUtate the labours of those who may hereafter be 

 engaged in drawing up, what is now frequently enquired 

 for, and almost indispensable — a general manuscript 

 Catalogue of the contents of the Museum: a brief 

 abstract or synopsis of which might be printed, and 

 sold at a small cost to strangers and others ; and in 

 the absence of a keeper or sub-curator, would serve 



