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No 1 1 to No 3 Hanover Square ; the freehold of the 

 latter house having been secured by the Council at a cost 

 of 16,250. Such an important transaction would not, 

 we may be assured, have been allowed to take place 

 without the most careful deliberation and consideration 

 on the part* of the President. 



On the first meeting of the Society, held on 1st April 

 1884, in its new premises, the President took the 

 opportunity of congratulating the Fellows present on 

 the very great improvement in the Meeting-room, the 

 Library, and the Offices, resulting from the change. The 

 Society had occupied the old house, No II Hanover 

 Square, for forty-one years, and had long since quite 

 outgrown the accommodation it afforded in all the three 

 departments mentioned above. 



The income of the Society had increased from 9 1 37 

 in 1843 to 28,966 in 1883, with a corresponding 

 increase of clerical work. The Library had been almost 

 entirely formed since the earlier of these dates, and 

 was rapidly increasing, and the attendance of the 

 Fellows at the evening meetings for scientific business 

 had been such that the old rooms were quite inadequate 

 for their accommodation. The President trusted that 

 the increased facilities afforded by the move would be 

 taken advantage of by the Fellows in promoting, with 

 even greater zeal than previously, the work for which 

 the Society was founded, and in maintaining and extend- 

 ing the high reputation it had acquired in the scientific 

 world. 



Few presidents or chairmen, whether of scientific 

 societies or of commercial companies, could have had a 

 more satisfactory record of progress to lay before their 



