tion, after urgent requests for a favourable reconsideration, left your 

 Council no other alternative but reluctantly to accept the resignations. 

 In giving notice of this decision to each, the Clerk of Council meeting 

 of 24th September, added an extract from minute of that date, which, 

 we think, will be endorsed by all who know anything of the painstaking 

 work of our late Secretary and Treasurer : — 



' The Merabei's of Council desire to express and record their high sense of 

 the many and imj)ortant services rendered by you to the Society, and their great 

 regret that the causes mentioned by yon in your letter of resignation should 

 have led you to follow the course therein intimated.' 



Your Council have further to intimate the appointment of two of 

 their number to the vacant offices : — 



Mr John Nelson, as interim Hon. Treasurer. 



Mr Fkank W. Young, as interim Hon. Secretary. " 



Mr Allan Mathewson and Mr James Durham were afterwards elected 

 to fill the two vacancies in the Council, and it is only right to add that 

 the late Secretary and Treasurer (the latter by his presence in the 

 Council) have both willingly guided and aided their successors in the 

 proper discharge of their onerous duties. 



Hapj^ily we have again to express our great indebtedness to the 

 High School Directors for generously giving us the use of their excellent 

 Mathematical Class-room for ordinary meetings of the Society. For 

 three sessions now we have had the great privilege of a room in every 

 way most admirably adapted for the purposes of our fortnightly 

 meetings. Experiments and diagrams in illustration of lectures and 

 papers are both easily arranged for and well seen from every part of it. 

 Your Council trust that a continuation of this favour will be further 

 granted to the Society. 



In all fourteen lectures and papers have been given at thirteen 

 meetings held during the past session. These were as follows : — 



