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These lectures attracted large and appreciative audiences and 

 afforded to those present much pleasure and profit. 



Your Council would recommend that hereafter ten lectures 

 be given in this course on some popular subjects of natural history- 



The thanks of your Society are hereby tendered to the gentle- 

 men who so kindly delivered the lectures for this year and also 

 to those who contributed to the Museum during the year, and 

 especially to 31r. A. A. Jowett, of Sheffield, England, for his 

 handsome donation — a case of British game birds. Over two 

 thousand persons visited the Museum during the year and nearly 

 all free. 



Your Council has also to thank Mr. Charles Gibb for the 

 kind invitation extended during the past year to visit his country 

 residence at Abottsford, and to regret that the weather was so 

 unpropitious that they could not avail themselves of his proffered 

 hospitality. 



Your Council has to regret the continued illness of Professor 

 F. W. Hicks, the recording secretary, and to thank Dr. Edwards 

 for having kindly acted in that capacity during the abf^ence of 

 Mr. Hicks. 



Your Council would recommend to their successors that a 

 revised list of members be printed in the Naturalist, and that the 

 Society's exchani>;e list be revised for the forthcomins:; edition of 

 the Society's transactions, which will be published by Messrs. 

 John Lovell & Sou, for the Society. 



Mr. Marler also presented 



THE treasurer's REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 



During the past year numerous improvements have been made 

 in the building. The ceiling of the library has been decorated, 

 additional shelves have been put up and a new carpet placed on 

 the floor. A new furnnce has been placed in the building, the 

 amount due Dawson Bros, and the arrears of taxes have been 

 paid and there remains on hand a balance of $192.18, with the 

 Government grant for 1883 yet intact. 



