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At the same meeting the Council were empowered to appoint 

 another to the office, and, at a meeting which they held on the 

 loth May, Mr John Thomson undertook to perform the duties at 

 their request. 



In concluding, your Council would now tender you their thanks 

 for the honour you conferred upon them in electing them to office. 

 They have met 31 times during the year to transact the Society's 

 business ; and they venture to believe that the Society's interests 

 have not suffered in their hands. In all their dealings the 

 honour and interests of the Society were made their first care. 



The Dundee Naturalists' Society is now a recognised institu- 

 tion in the town. It has been acknowledged by the press as one 

 of the chief agencies engaged in the diffusion of scientific 

 education; and it occupies a very high position in the estimation 

 of the more enlightened portion of the community. Your 

 Council leave it in a very healthy and vigorous condition ; and 

 they feel assured that, if their successors pursue in the manage- 

 ment of its affairs a policy similar to that which has guided 

 them, by the end of another year the membership of the Society 

 and its power for good Avill be very largely increased. 



JOHN THOMSON, 



Secretary. 



1st November 1877. 



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