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The adjourned annual meeting was held on June 16th. Prin- 

 cipal Dawson in the chair. 



The minutes of the meeting of May 18th having been read 

 and sustained, it was moved by My. J. H. Joseph, seconded by 

 Prof. F. W. Hicks, and resolved : that in accordance with notice 

 given at the meeting on the 18th ult., "the annual subscription 

 to the Society be reduced to four dollars including the subscrip- 

 tion to the Naturalist and to three dollars without the Natu- 

 ra list. 



The chairman of Council and the Recording Secretary were 

 requested to issue a circular announcing the change in the sub- 

 scription and urging members to endeavor to increase the mem- 

 bership list." 



Messrs. Geo. Craig and P. Keutzing were proposed as ordinary 

 members, after which the meeting adjourned. 



Session 1881-82. 



The first meeting of the Society, for this session, was held on 

 the evening of November 7th — Principal Dawson occupied the 

 chair. Minutes of last meetino; beins; read and sustained, it was 

 resolved, on motion of J. S. Brown, Esq., seconded by J. H. 

 Joseph, Esq., " To sell to Mrs, F. W. Thomas the portion of the 

 Society's lot intervening between its building and the line of Mrs. 

 Thomas' property, to the depth of the buildings on Mrs. Thomas' 

 lots, and the mitoyennete of so much of the wall of the Society's 

 building as is used by Mrs. Thomas. This, in consideration of 

 Mrs. Thomas paying the Society one-half the value of the portion 

 of the wall and of the "round on which it is erected — the valua- 

 tion of the wall to be made by Mr. Hutchinson — and the ground 

 to be valued at $1.20 per square foot, English; and in further 

 consideration of the Society's being sufiered to retain the use of 

 such of the windows as now overlook Mrs. Thomas' land, so long 

 as the Society's building is used for the present purposes of a 

 Museum, curator's residence and Lecture Room. But should it 

 be converted to private uses, the Society will be bound to close 

 its openings [overlooking said Mrs. Thomas' land ; the Society 

 to bar their windows so that access to Mrs. Thomas' land may 

 be prevented, and that the President and Treasurer be author- 

 ised to carry this resolution into effect, and to sign all necessary 

 deeds, and to receive the price and grant discharge therefor." 



