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meaPORT- OF:..- THE HON. SECRETARY, 
1880. 
j} HE Second Anniversary of this Society was held in the 
School of Art, kindly lent by the Committee for the 
M4} occasion, on the 29th of January, 1880. The Hon. 
W. M. Jervis presided. The Report of the Society’s proceedings 
for the past year, which contained a satisfactory financial 
statement, and showed a considerable increase in the number of 
members, was read. 
The Officers for the commencing year were elected. Of the 
eight Members of Council retiring in rotation (according to Rule 
V.), seven were re-elected, and Mr. Fred. Davis was elected a 
Member of Council in the room of the Rev. F. C. Fisher, who 
retired. Three other vacancies on the Council, caused by the 
retirement of Canon Hey, Capt. Beamish, and Mr. W. Edmunds, 
were filled by the election of the Rev. Alfred Olivier, Messrs. C. 
Jas. Cade, and W. G. Turbutt. All the other Officers were re- 
elected. 
During the past year there have been six meetings of the 
Council, at which the attendance of the elected Members has 
been good, and more regular than previously; this regularity of 
attendance facilitates the working of the Society in many ways, as 
the Members can then bear in mind, from one meeting to another, 
the subjects under discussion. ‘The Council is again indebted to 
the same two Vice-Presidents who have assisted its work in 
previous years. 
