Bfjjort of tfje dommittcf. 



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The Committee beg to submit to the Members a Summary 

 of the Lectures which have been delivered since the last 

 Annual General Meeting, — an Account of the Treasurer's 

 receipts and disbursements, — and of the presentations to the 

 Library. 



The Lectures during the past year have been attended by 

 the members and visitors as constantly and numerously as in 

 any preceding year ; and an attentive review of the Sum- 

 mary will evidence the exertions of the Lecturers, to whom 

 the best thanks of the members are especially due. The 

 subjects treated of, range through the most interesting depart- 

 ments of S cience and Literature, and the amount of useful 

 information which has been disseminated, or at least, to which 

 attention has been directed, cannot have been unattended with 

 its resulting benefits. 



The Committee are gratified in being able to state, that the 

 recess during the months of July, August, and September, 

 does not appear to have been detrimental to the interests of 

 the Institution. They consider it as affording a respite to the 

 Lecturers, and as giving an additional impulse to exertion, 

 and a degre<> of freshness to the business of the Institution 

 which would not be induced by one continued course of labour 

 and attention. The Lecture Card for the ensuing quarter 

 shews the exertions of the Lecturers to be unremitted. 



With regard to the Treasurer's account, the Committee feel 

 much satisfaction in informing the Members, that from their 

 having received several liberal donations they have been 

 enabled to discharge many lieavy bills of lung standing. 

 The state of the last year's receipts and payments will appear 



