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Mr. Charles Hargreaves, at a slightly higher salary than 

 was paid to his predecessor ; but advantage was taken of 

 the opportunity to make some changes in the duties of the 

 office in respect to clerical work, such as entering daily the 

 donations to the Library, recording the publications received 

 from Societies under their respective names, &c. The 

 Council at the same time discontinued the additional remu- 

 neration for attendance on Sections and Societies formerly 

 paid, preferring to make the salary offered an inclusive one 

 for all the duties required. 



In the Publishing Account^ as compared with the previous- 

 year, there is a considerable diminution in the expenditure, 

 due to several causes, some of which were alluded to in last 

 year's report. The chief economy lies in the alteration in 

 the form of publication of the papers read before the 

 Society, as particularised in the previous report, and your 

 Council has reason to believe that the change is acceptable 

 to the members, as leading to a more rapid and regular 

 publication, and in the improved typography and paper of 

 the new issue. Soon after the new and consolidated form 

 of publication had been resolved upon, the Council learned 

 with extreme regret of the death of the editor of the 

 Society's publications, their old and valued friend Mr. Joseph 

 Baxendell, F.R.S. At the earnest request of his colleagues, 

 one of the Society's secretaries, Mr. Frederick James Fara- 

 day, F.L.S., accepted the post of honorary editor, and his 

 duties commenced with the first number of the 4th series 

 of the Society's Memoirs and Proceedings. 



Mr. Alfred Brothers, F.R.A.S., during the Session \Z'S>6-'j, 

 had presented to the Council an index which he had made 

 of the Society's Memoirs, 2nd Series, Vols. XIII. to XV., 

 and 3rd Series, Vols. I. to X. The consideration of this 

 index has led your Council to arrange for the preparation 

 and publication of an index of the whole of the volumes 

 of Proceedings and Memoirs of the Society since its 



