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Society, to send to the Treasurer, Mr. Frank Crisp, 

 cheques for £100 or £1000 to start the fund. If those who 

 believed in the utility of the Society, and its projected 

 Laboratory, were prepared to subscribe generously to the 

 Laboratory Fund, the anticipations of those who had spoken 

 so hopefully of the work taken up by the Society would be 

 speedily realised. 



At the first Annual Meeting in June, 1885, of the Asso- 

 ciation thus founded, subscriptions to the amount of £8000 

 were announced. At the second Annual Meeting in June, 

 1886, the subscriptions amounted to nearly £15,000, and at 

 the third Annual Meeting in June, 1887, the approaching 

 completion of the Laboratory on the Citadel Hill at Ply- 

 mouth, and the commencement of active work, formed 

 the subjects of the Council's report. 



