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The Report and Balance Sheet were adopted on the motion of 
Mr. J. O'Sullivan, seconded by Mr. C. M. Livens. 
The Officers, Committee, and some new members were elected. 
The general business of the evening being completed, the 
President gave his Inaugural Address, entitled: ‘‘’The Pyramids,” in 
which he described the various kinds of Pyramids to be met with in 
Lower Egypt and their peculiarities. A number of interesting 
mathematical details were given, which tended to shew that in the 
ease of the Great Pyramid of Cheops the intention of the designers 
was not so much to raise a sepulchre as to set up a great standard of 
Astronomical and Metrical Constants. 
On the proposition of Mr. W. Howarth, seconded by Sir Reginald 
Hardy, a hearty vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to 
Mr. Matthews. 
