REPORT 



OF THE COMMITTEE. 



The Committee beg to lay before the Society a sum- 

 mary of the Lectures which have bee i delivered since the 

 last Annual General Meeting — an account of the Trea- 

 surer's receipts and disbursements — and of the presentations 

 to the Library. 



The Committee feel much pleasure in stating that the 

 Lectures have, during the past year, been attended by a 

 greater number of Members and Visitors than during any 

 preceding year. The approval of the exertions of the 

 Lecturers may be inferred from that circumstance ; and 

 the Committee can but offer, in the name of the Society, 

 their acknowledgments to them for their exertions in pro- 

 moting the objects which the Society has in view. 



In regard to the suspension of the Lectures during the 

 last three months — a circumstance which has not before 

 occurred — the Committee consider it their duty to the 

 Members, and to the public generally, to state, that they 

 were induced to make that arrangement partly at the re- 

 quest of several Lecturers for a short remission of their 

 labours, and partly from the Lecture-room, during the 

 summer months, not having been constantly and regularly 

 attended. The recess, it is lioped, will not be in any way 

 detrimental to the Institution. The Lectures aimounced 

 for the ensuing quarter evince the devotcdncss of the 

 lecturers, and will ensure for that period a regular series 

 of subjects, both scientific and literary. 



Tlic state of the year's receipts and payments will ap- 

 pear by the abstract of the Treasurer's accounts. The 



