NOTE. 

 Acknowledgements are due to the Sptj^ and the Evening 

 Gazette, (emphatically the latter), for tlieir lull and precise 

 Reports of the Weekly Meetings and Discussions, without 

 whose essential aid the summary herein published would have 

 been impossible. The Committee especially aimed to cover 

 topics that were not embraced in loruier " Transactions." 



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noUTICULTUKAL HaLL, 



January 14, A. D, 1879. 



