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but is also convex from side to side, and is 2f inches wide at its 

 broadest part. This is not a common bowl, but is only used for 

 serving the Chiefs of the tribes with food ; the other natives of 

 the tribes where this bowl was used were not as a rule permitted 

 to have their meals served up in separate bowls as the chiefs' 

 were. This bowl is cut out of one piece of wood. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 

 WEDNESDAY, 25th JANUARY, 1882. 



The President, J. C. Cox, M.D., F.L.S., &c, in the Chair. 



The President read the following address : 



president's address. 



Gentlemen, — Twelve months ago you did me the honour of 

 electing me your president, and it now becomes my duty, before 

 I vacate, in accordance with the regulations, that honourable 

 position, to deliver this evening the customary annual address. 

 In doing so, I will briefly pass under review the present position 

 of the Society, the scientific labours of its members during my 

 term of office, and the prospect of the progressive future of the 

 association. To this I will attach, as worthy of our admiration 

 and emulation, a few notices of the doings of other men, in other 

 countries, who have recently startled the world by their brilliant 

 researches and discoveries, not only of intense interest to the 

 thoughtful of every grade and condition, but tending eventually 

 to produce practical results incalculably beneficial. I can safely 

 congratulate the members on this the close of the seventh year of 

 the Society's existence, that the wishes and hopes expressed for its 

 prosperity and stability by the first president, the founder of this 

 Institution, in his inaugural address, have been up to the present 

 time satisfactorily fulfilled ; for during the past year the list of 



