PREFATORY NOTE. 



Owing to the want of funds the Society has been unable to publish any 

 of the papers read since the beginning of 1892, with the exception of the 

 Presidential Address, by Mr. John Shirley, B.Sc, and Proceedings, issued 

 in 1893, Volume IX. The difficulties alluded to having at length beea 

 overcome, through the exercise of economy and retrenchment, it is hoped 

 that the Transactions and Proceedings will be published regularly in future. 

 The Council take the present opportunity of thanking those members 

 and others who have contributed papers in spite of the discouraging 

 knowledge that their publication would be long delayed; and also the 

 Institutions which have continued to send their publications as donations 

 to the library, even when this Society had nothing to offer in exchange. 



