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others interested in scientific pursuits, continues un« 

 abated, and the admissions during the past exceed in 

 number those registered during the preceding year : 

 your Committee however are sorry to add that the 

 payments for admission amount only to £7 IO5., 

 being considerably less than the sum which might 

 reasonably have been calculated on — a result attrib- 

 utable to the increased number of free admissions 

 granted by Members — and your Council would 

 therefore, from pecuniary considerations, impress on 

 the Members of the Society the necessity of a strict 

 adherence to the regulations as regards free admissions. 



The Treasurers' account, which is annexed in the 

 usual form, shows the financial position of the Society. 

 The expenses incurred, as alluded to in the last report, 

 in providing an additional glass case and other ne- 

 cessary fittings to the Museum, have exhausted the 

 Society's resources, and your Council would therefore 

 again solicit the aid of the Members in procuring: 

 additional subscribers to the Institution, 



In order to improve the pecuniary position of the 

 Society, and to create a fund towards the completion 

 of the purchase of the Museum building, the Council 

 have decided to have a Bazaar on a scale commen- 

 surate with the object in view, and recommend that it 

 should be held in the month oi August or September 

 in the ensuing year ; and the Members are earnestly 

 invited to co-operate and request the assistance of their 



