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Finally, the Council, in resigning their charge, beg to express 

 their sanguine expectations respecting the future progress and use- 

 fulness of your Society as a scientific and literary institution. They 

 feel assured, that its utility and position only require to be properly 

 explained to this liberal and enterprising community in order to 

 obtain that support which it really requires and undoubtedly de- 

 serves. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE. 



We beg to submit for your consideration the Annual Report 

 on the Library and Mu.-eum. The Librarian reports, that in the 

 month of August last, he inspected the journals, transactions of 

 socieiies, and other loose papers, the properly of this Society, and 

 on the occasion of the August meeting, submitted for consideration 

 a hastily drawn up report of the many missing numbers of peri- 

 odicals, and also recommended that all periodicals and papers worth 

 Dreservino: should be bound at the termination of each year. 



It is actually necessary that the by-laws regarding the removal 

 of books be strictly enforced. Members have hitherto been in 

 the habit of taking books from the library, and retaining them in 

 their possession for months, if not years, and, as a consequence, 

 many w r orks of great value have been lost. 



Early in February, the library and museum were removed to 

 this building. During this removal, Mr.D'Urbain, the sub-curator, 

 rendered efficient service, and in the subsequent arrangement of 

 the specimens and library, much assistance was rendered by our 

 President, Principal Dawson, Mr. D'Urbain, and other gentlemen, 

 who gave considerable time towards that desired end. 



Since the occupancy of this building, the Society have secured 

 the valuable services of Mr. William Hunter, who lias, since his 

 appointment, opened all the cases of birds and animals, thoroughly 

 cleansed the specimei s, and re-arranged many of them. lie has 

 also set up between 90 and 100 new specimens which have been 

 added to our collection. 



The Curator further draws attention to the many duplicate speci- 

 mens of birds, both American and foreign, fossils, minerals, <fcc, 

 which, by judicious exchange, would secure many objects which are 

 not in our collection. 



The accommodation afforded in the spacious hall of this building 

 is, for the present, more than sufficient, there being room for a 

 much larger collection than we at present possess. 



