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tickets of admission to them to the Brighton and District 

 Teachers' Association, the School of Science and Art, the Young 

 Men's Christian Association, &c. The thanks of the Society are 

 due to Mr. J. W. Howlett, Chairman of the Hove Commissioners, 

 for the loan of his private room in the Town Hall at Hove for a 

 meeting, and to the Eev. J. J. Hannah, M.A., for the use on two 

 occasions of a large room in the Central Schools, Church Street. 



Much difficulty has arisen with regard to the publication of 

 the papers read before the Society. The great expense (about 

 £i0) incurred in former years by printing every paper in extenso, 

 hardly seeming to the Committee justifiable in the interests of 

 the Society, the Committee now recommends that an abstract of 

 the papers read shall, as a general rule, be appended to the annual 

 report. This, however, must not be understood as precluding its 

 giving at greater length any paper read before the Society, or 

 any communication made to it, which shall appear to the Com- 

 mittee of sufficient scientific or literary value. 



Seeing that ladies have of late years taken a large and in- 

 creasing interest in the proceedings of the Society the Committee 

 has resolved to recommend to the Society that they be admitted 

 to all the privileges of membership. 



Experience having shown that some further modifications of the 

 rules and regulations which bear on the constitution .and governance 

 of the Society to have become advisable ; a sub-Committee, con- 

 sisting of Messrs. Ewart, Hasel^vood, Merrifield, and your two hon. 

 secretaries, has been appointed to take the matter into considera- 

 tion, and report thereon to the Committee. The new regulation 

 with regard to the admission of ladies to membership, together, 

 probably, with some others, will be submitted to the decision of 

 the Society at a special general meeting to be called early in the 

 ensuing session. 



