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intended to hold the ordinary meetings of the Academy in the large 
room above stairs, whilst the smaller room adjoining it will be ap- 
propriated as a Council-room. The improvements projected by the 
Commissioners of the Board of Works will, it is hoped, commence 
in August. 
A portion of the expense of removal has unavoidably fallen 
upon the Academy. It was necessary to compensate the late occu- 
pants for gas-fittings and other fixtures, and also to pay the rent of 
the house for the half-year preceding the date at which the tenure 
of it by the Government commences. To meet these charges the 
Academy, at a recent meeting, authorized the payment of 177 18s. 8d. 
It is hoped, however, that this sum will be more than reimbursed 
when the Academy’s interest in the house in Grafton-street has 
been disposed of, the value of that interest being now considerably 
greater than it was when the application was made to Government 
for a new place of residence. Since that time the landlord under 
whom the Academy holds was advised to take proceedings in the 
Court of Chancery to compel the Corporation to insert a new life 
in the head-lease, on the ground that the person about whose life a 
doubt existed had been so long missing, that there was a reason- 
able presumption of the death previous to Easter, 1851. The appli- 
cation having been granted by the Court, the life of a young person 
was inserted in the lease; and the Academy’s interest in it has thus 
become so much more valuable that the sale of it is likely to realize 
a considerable sum. 
The third part of the twenty-second volume of the Transactions 
of the Academy has been printed off, and its publication is only 
delayed pending the execution of two etchings illustrating Dr. 
Kennedy Bailie’s paper on the University Anaglyphs. 
The first part of the fifth volume of the Proceedings was pub- 
lished during the past year. By a rigid adherence to a resolution 
of the Council, respecting the abstracts of communications made to 
the Academy, the Editor has been enabled regularly to furnish the 
members with a printed report of the proceedings of each meeting 
within a few days after its occurrence. The working of this sys- 
tem will, no doubt, be much facilitated when its nature and ob- 
jects are better understood. Any member applying for leave to 
