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prove of this arrangement, which is only binding until Ist Nov., 
1864. They trust that the Club will have a prosperous career, 
and that the ranks of the Museum Society will, from year to 
year, be reinforced by accessions from the young men who are 
thus showing their interest in Natural History by grouping 
themselves into a society for its practical investigation. Your 
Council now beg to refer to the proceedings of the Society, 
through which your Museum makes itself known to the scientific 
world. The Society has had—as regards communications laid 
before it—a satisfactory session. Still, as many are now deeply 
immersed in business pursuits, an occasional difficulty in procur- 
contributions has been met with. Your Council deem it 
right to advert to this point, even while they can point with 
pleasure to the following list of papers read during past ses- 
sion :— 
1. Private Meeting, 29th October, 1862; Mr. Joseph John 
Murphy, on “ Revolving Storms.” 
2. Public Meeting, 12th November, 1862; Dr. Wyville 
Thomson, President of the Society, an opening address on ‘‘ Some 
Points of Present Interest Connected with Natural Science.” 
3. Private Meeting, 26th November, 1862; Mr. G. C. Hynd- 
man, on the “Stormy Petrel.” Professor James Thomson, on 
“The Origin of the Jointed Columnar Structure of the Giant’s 
Causeway.” 
4, Public Meeting, 10th December, 1862 ; Dr. Henry MacCor- 
mac, on “The Vital Efficacy of an Uncontaminated Night 
Atmosphere.” , 
5. Private Meeting, 7th January, 1863; Mr. Joseph John 
Murphy, on “The Motive Power of Storms,” Professor J. 
Thomson, on “The Disintegration of Stones Exposed in Build- 
ings or Otherwise to Atmospheric Influence.” 
6. Public Meeting, 21st January, 1863; Dr. Wyville Thomson, 
on “ The Moa; a Gigantic Extinct Bird of New Zealand.” 7 
7. Private Meeting, 11th February, 1863; Mr. Joseph John 
Murphy, on “ Geological Climates.” 
8. Public Meeting, 18th February, 1863; Rev. Isaiah Steen, 
on “The Phenomena of the Tides, Atmospheric and Oceanic.” 
9. Private Meeting, 15th April, 1863; Mr. John Grainger, on 
“The Constellations.” Mr. Hyndman, on “Some Mexican An- 
tiquities in the Museum.” 
10. Public Meeting, 13th May, 1863; Dr. Redfern, on “The 
Brain and Nervous System.” 
It will be observed that these lectures comprised subjects con- 
nected with Meteorological Science, Geological Investigations, 
Sanitary Science, Ornithology, Astronomy, Archeology, and 
Anatomical study, thus affording a very wide range of thought 
to those who regularly attended the lectures, 
It may be noticed that an interval of unusual length occurred 
in the delivery of the Society’s Lectures, between February and 
April. This interval was most advantageously filled up by the 
