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publicly to record their high sense of the vaUie of Mr. Weir's 

 services as President, and especially of the great advantages 

 which have accrued to the Members from his extensive and varied 

 scientific acquirements, and from his readiness at all times to 

 place before them the results of his labours and investigations. 

 The Council have the satisfaction of recommending as his 

 successor, Charles Heisch, Esq., F.C.S., who has consented to be 

 put in nomination, and whose eminence as a chemist, and well- 

 known attainmeiits in other departments of science show him to 

 be worthy of the acceptance by the Society. 



In concluding their report, the Council would express the 

 gratification it has aiforded them to see some of the younger 

 members take part in the proceedings at the Meetings. They 

 hope that during the current year the Meetings will be yet more 

 numerously attended, and that all the members will, either by 

 contributing the results of their reading and observation, or by 

 asking questions and in promoting one of the objects for which 

 the Society was founded, viz., tlie cultivation of the true spirit of 

 Scientific enquiry and research. 



