THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. 
Durine the past year, the number of the Members of 
this Society has gone on steadily increasing, and has now 
reached 502. Of this number, since the last Annual Meeting, 
1 Honorary, 2 Corresponding, and 62 Ordinary Members have 
been elected. We have lost 17 by death and removal. The 
large number of Members that the Society has now on its list 
is a hopeful sign, both for its present and future stability, but 
one that is also a source of some anxiety to those who take an 
interest in the true objects for which such Societies are estab- 
lished ; for though, in a certain sense, we are all learners, still 
the very word ‘‘Society” implies the associating for some 
given object, and this, in our case, is the mutual communication 
of knowledge, so that the more we see our Members coming 
forward, both to give and to receive, the more surely do we 
know that we are progressing in the right direction. Scientific 
training in some one subject is the best discipline a mind can 
receive; but there is much still that is open to the observant 
faculties, and though we all know we are gifted with senses, 
the importance of cultivating these senses is as yet only partially 
understood. There are two little books which no doubt many 
of our Members know, and which are not a little suggestive on 
