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Mr. Montgomery.—Subject—On the American ship 
canal. 
_ The treasurer’s report will show the present state 
of your funds, and your council trust that you will ap- 
prove of the manner in which they have expended the 
amount authorised at the last annual meeting, to be 
raised for the purposes then specified. In concluding 
this report, the council have merely to express, in gene- 
ral terms, that the Museum and Society are progressing 
steadily, and are continuing to foster that spirit of sci- 
entific inquiry which it has always been the aim of your 
council to develope and encourage.” 
After the report was read, the following gentlemen 
were elected members of the council for the ensuing 
twelve months:—Thos. Andrews, M.D., F.R.S., George 
Dickie. M.D., J. R. Garrett, Edmund Getty, M.R.I.A., 
John Grainger, John Grattan, Geo. C. Hyndman, Jas. 
MacAdam, F.G.S., Robt. M‘Adam, J. J. Murphy, Robt. 
Patterson, John Stevelly, LL.D., Rey. Isaiah Steen. A. 
O’D. Taylor, James Thomson, C.E. 
The council selected the following office-bearers out 
of their number:—-President—Thomas Andrews, M.D., 
F.R.S.; Vice-Presidents—John Stevelly, LL.D., George 
Dickie, M.D., Geo. C. Hyndman, Robert M‘Adam; 
Treasurer—John Grattan; Librarian—Rev. I. Steen; 
Secretaries—James MacAdam, F.G.S., and A. O’D. 
Taylor; Corresponding Secretary—John Grainger. 
~ ‘Phe thanks of the meeting were voted to Robert Pat- 
terson, Esq., on his retiring from the office of President, 
which he had held for the last two years; and to James 
MacAdam, jun., Esq., on his retirement from the office of 
corresponding seeretary. 
The following isa list of donations received during 
the session 1853-54:— 
Mrs. Blair, Clearstream Cottage—specimen of foreign 
fish. John Porter, Esq.—specimens of Sicilian anti- 
quities, a number of coins and specimens of the Papyrus. 
Sir J. Emerson Tennent—a large and beautiful collec- 
tion of shells from Ceylon. 'T. H. Jones, Esq., Money- 
glass—a pied blackbird. Captain Turney—the jaws 
and part of the backbone of a shark. Wm. Young, Esq. 
a razor-bill in Winter plumage, shot in the Lagan. 
V. Coates, Esq.—two goosanders, shot in Scotland. 
Captain May—a rifle-gun from Lapland. Wm. Verner, 
Esq.—specimens of ornithorhyncus. Mr. Wm. Darragh 
—specimens of the gadwal, shoveller, and long-tailed 
