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announcing that they adopted, by a unanimous vote, the following 

 Resolutions: — 



" That the quarto 'Transactions' be published regularly on the first 

 Meeting of the Session in November of each year, and contain all 

 such papers, read during the previous Session, as the Council shall 

 direct. 



" That the 'Proceedings' contain, as at present, abstracts of all the 

 papers read before the Society (and not inserted in the ' Proceedings' 

 themselves), and notices of all communications made to the ordinary 

 Meetings, of sufficient importance to be recorded. 



" That papers communicated expressly for insertion in the ' Pro- 

 ceedings' be, if so directed by the Council, printed entire. 



" That the ' Proceedings' be published periodically (say four times 

 in the year, on the 1st of February, the 1st of April, the 1st of June, 

 and the 1st of August), each number being made up to as late a 

 period as possible. 



" That the numbers be issued in printed covers, and the work be 

 registered as a periodical publication, to entitle it to the privilege 

 of transmission by post under a penny stamp applied to the cover. 



" That a copy of each number be transmitted gratuitously to each 

 Fellow, resident in the United Kingdom, not in arrear, whose address 

 shall be known, and delivered to the written order of every such 

 Fellow residing abroad. 



"That a copy of each number be presented to such societies at 

 home and abroad as the Council shall direct ; and that copies shall 

 be sold to the public at an annual subscription, to be hereafter 

 determined, including transmission by post to any part of the United 

 Kingdom. 



"That the 'Proceedings* be separately paged for Zoology and 

 Botany, and each division be issued separately to purchasers who 

 may so desire them, at a smaller annual subscription." 



Such is the plan to which the Council has determined to give a 

 full and fair trial. It will require much energy as well as judgment 

 to carry it into effect ; but I cannot doubt the hearty cooperation of 

 the Fellows, to assist, by their individual exertions, in obtaining all 

 the advantages which are hoped for from its adoption. The scheme 

 may possibly appear, in the opinion of some, to be not sufficiently 

 comprehensive ; whilst others may deem that the change is even 

 more considerable than was called for or expedient. I must how- 

 ever state my own conviction, that the Council has secured, what it 

 is often so difficult to obtain, the " aurea mediocritas ;" and I cannot, 

 I think, better close this subject, together with my Address, than 



