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Rousselet, who kindly manages this department, but simply 

 that the late issue of the last number of the Journal rendered 

 it impossible to collect the amount due in time to include it in the 

 1897 accounts. 



Your Committee has again to express its appreciation of the 

 efficient manner in which the manifold affairs of the Club have 

 been carried on by the several officers, and its best thanks are 

 due to them for their services. 



Finally, from a consideration of the past, your Committee is 

 hopeful of the future of the Club. So long as the promotion of 

 its welfare continues to be regarded as a duty by its members — 

 which does not appear to be doubtful — its continued career of 

 utility and prosperity seems assured ; but no feeling of confidence 

 should prevent each from doing his utmost to further the 

 interests of a Society like this, which from the first has entirely 

 depended on voluntary, individual effort, freely given for tlie 

 advantage of all. 



