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During the suspension of publication it was decided that 

 the Proceedings could not be furnished any longer fi*ee of 

 cost to the members, without serious detriment to the Treas- 

 ury; and it has been further deemed advisable to change the 

 form of the Journal from 8vo to 4to, and the title at the 

 same time to '"Memoirs," and accordingly the Committee 

 were authorized in December last to issue a circular inviting 

 subscriptions to both these Pubhcations, to see if a sufficient 

 number could be obtained to nearly cover the cost of their 

 pubhcation; careful estimates seemed to prove that 200 

 subscriptions would cover the expense of printing the Me- 

 moirs and 300 that of the Proceedings ; up to this time 161 

 names, representing 172 subscriptions, have been appended 

 to the List, viz., 142 subscriptions to the Memoirs and 164 

 to the Proceedings. It is> confidently hoped that 20 or 30 

 more names will be added within a month, and that other 

 additions will be made so soon as the issue actually com- 

 mences. Under these circumstances it seems desirable to 

 recommence the regular issue of our pubhcations without 

 delay; it is the only means whereby we obtain the publica- 

 tions of other Societies, an important part of our Library, 

 and a long suspension may bring serious detriment, espe- 

 cially as it is so recently that we have enlarged our hst 

 of correspondents. 



Some of the back joarts of the Journal and Proceedings 

 are entirely out of piint, and others nearly so, in conse- 

 quence of which, a tariff of prices for the different vol- 

 umes and parts has been estabhshed by the Pubhshing 

 Committee. 



All the copies of the back volumes of the Journal and 

 Proceedings have been carefully examined this year and 

 the latter part of last year ; in the early part of this work 

 the Librarian had the welcome assistance of Mr. Horace 

 ]Mann and Mr. S. M. Buck. These volumes were removed 

 to this building in a great state of confusion ; in very many 

 cases the signatures of the Journal had never been assorted, 

 and it was impossible to know how many copies were in the 

 Society's possession until this was done. The copies of the 

 Journal which were perfect in text and plates were placed by 



