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have received the thanks of the Royal Academy and of the 

 Committee of Management of the Government School of 

 Design for the facilities which the Council have willingly 

 accorded to the Pupils in both Institutions. 



The Council have been anxious, in making this their 

 Annual Report, to give as much information as possible 

 concerning the actual state and prospects of the Society, 

 and they trust that notwithstanding the diminution in 

 some branches of the Income, they may indulge a hope 

 that by the measures recently adopted and the success 

 which has hitherto attended them — especially by the in- 

 creased interest evinced by the number of Visitors to the 

 Garden — the Society will advance in prosperity, and be 

 enabled in future years to afford additional resources for 

 information and amusement both to the Fellows and to 

 the Public. 



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