ANNUAL MEETING. 113 
The ordinary monthly sittings—nine in number—have 
been fairly attended, the average number present being 20, 
exclusive of visitors. At these meetings twenty-two Papers 
have been read on the following subjects :— 
Ethnology 
Zoology 
Geodesy 
Meteorology ... 
Geology (including Paleontology a and Hydrology) 
Applied Science sie 
Botany (including Agriculture) 
Ole OT me me SY OD 
Three of these Papers have been contributed by gentlemen 
who are not members of the Society, to whom, accordingly, 
your thanks are especially due. 
In addition to these papers, short notices on isolated sub- 
jects have from time to time been presented at the 
meetings. , 
The second volume of the Society’s Proceedings has been 
published, and is being issued to the members, and dis- 
tributed to societies and public scientific institutions, many 
of which have furnished publications in return. 
By this system of exchange, and by the liberality of 
private donors, the library of the Society has been enriched 
by the reception of 148 books, pamphlets, or papers— 
received from 24 societies, 11 Government Departments, 
and 10 individuals. Particulars of these accessions, which 
include works of great value, have been announced from 
time to time in the Monthly Abstracts of the Society’s 
Proceedings. 
In view of the rapidly increasing dimensions of the 
library, and for the purposes of the Society generally, your 
Council applied in March to the Government for the use of 
a room, and learnt with regret that no suitable one was 
available. With this end in view further measures, how- 
ever, have since been adopted which are likely to be 
successful. 
For the purpose of giving the members more ready access 
to the books possessed by the Society, the Council appointed, 
in December last, an honorary librarian in the person of 
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