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purchased, and it is very important that the building should be 
commenced as soon as we have the requisite funds in hand. 
The plans have been prepared by Mr. Lockwoop, and been 
approved in Committee. All this has taken considerable time 
and much work in the past year, and very frequent Meetings 
on the part of your Committee. 
As an educational body our Society has not been idle, and 
in connection with South Kensington there have been held 
Classes in 
ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY ..........-.-. Mr. W. F. LOwE 
ELEMENTARY BOTANY ..... nes Joos Js, DST DAE 
MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY ......:.MR. C. F. FIsH 
AVIDATEUNE ACT OG tersiereracatennvcncieheyoetot"e ts lalctatets | 
JAPPETED (MEBOHANICS) 4.8 (+. 22% 0.38 SARE Mr. F. GARSIDE. 
MACHINE CONSTRUCTION .. ......... } 
All these Classes have been well attended, and show that 
our efforts are appreciated. "The examinations take place next 
month, and it is to be hoped the students will do as well as 
on former occasions. Although some subjects studied in 
these Classes may appear outside the province of a local 
scientific Society, stlll the thorough grounding obtained by 
this mode of tuition precludes careless and profitless work, and 
where a true taste exists for scientific investigation, we may 
be very sure our younger Members will not only estimate their 
present advantages in proportion as they advance in knowledge, 
but contribute to the future prosperity of our Society, by efforts 
on their own part to carry on the work which they have com- 
_menced under its auspices. The number of students now on 
our books is 170. 
As a permanent record of the work of the Society is 
necessary to its vitality, your Committee have determined to 
‘p@blish another number—Part III.—of its Proceedings. The 
pamphlet may not be popular in the ordinary sense of the 
word, but as the papers will be selected from those which have 
a direct bearing on the locahty to which our Society especially 
gives its attention, they cannot fail to form a storehouse of 
useful information which will be available to those who come 
