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the attention of the Library Committee. One is the removal and 
sale of such duplicates, imperfect books, or useless books, inconsis- 
tent with the limits alluded to, which may be found in the Library ; 
and the other is the formation of a more complete catalogue than we 
now possess. 
With respect to the Museum, the first thing to be done, when 
the cases are completed, will be to arrange the collection in the best 
manner, and then to prepare a descriptive Catalogue. We must 
look to the Committee of Antiquities to take active steps for effect- 
ing these important objects. The question of a pictorial catalogue 
of typical articles selected from the Museum, multiplied by photogra- 
phy for the purpose of being interchanged with other Museums, or 
scientific Societies, has already engaged the attention of the Com- 
mittee. Such a catalogue, if it could be made to pay by the sale 
of copies any considerable portion of its expenses, would be a 
publication well worthy of the Academy, which could not fail to 
do good service in the spread of archzological science. But with 
the limited funds at the disposal of the Academy for such a pur- 
pose, the financial possibility of the work must, in the first instance, 
be carefully considered. 
One of the most important measures that calls for the attention 
of the Council is the preparation of a new edition of the Laws and 
Statutes of the Academy. Since the publication of the last edition 
several alterations have been made from time to time in various 
clauses of the Statutes ; there is therefore great difficulty now in as- 
certaining the actual law of the Academy without a diligent col- 
lation of the Minutes of the meetings in which such alterations have 
been agreed to. This collation would require an expenditure of 
time and labour that few can afford to give; and therefore the great 
majority of the Members of the Academy are practically in the 
position of being unable to ascertain to what laws they are pledged. 
To remedy this evil all that is necessary is to publish a new edition 
of the Statutes as they now exist; and steps have already been taken 
by the Council to do this with as little delay as possible. 
And now it remains only for me to return you thanks for the 
patience with which you have permitted me to occupy so much of 
your time. To-night I must enter upon the responsible duties of the 
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