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It was announced as probable that the contemplated arrange- 

 ments would be so far completed in the course of the month as to 

 take effect on the 8th of January next. 



In their Report to the General Meeting on January 3rd, 1833, 

 the Council presented a series of By-Laws, establishing General 

 Meetings for the transaction of scientific business, and determining 

 the publication of Transactions as well as of Proceedings. They 

 proposed that these By-Laws should be considered as provisionally 

 in force, until the day on which, according to the Charter, they 

 should be submitted for confirmation by the Society, and suggested, 

 therefore, that the General Meetings for scientific purposes should 

 commence on the 8th of January. 



The Report then proceeded as follows : 



" On the adoption of these propositions, the Meetings of the 

 Committee of Science and Correspondence may be considered as 

 concluded, and the Council deem it right that the occasion should 

 not pass without recording the satisfaction which they, in common 

 with the Society at large, have felt in the proceedings of that Com- 

 mittee. The active Members of it (and they are numerous), and the 

 Correspondents and friends who have added to the stock of know- 

 ledge through its means, are well entitled to the best thanks of the 

 Society for their valuable communications. It is hoped that their 

 exertions in the cause of science will be unremittingly continued ; 

 that fellow-labourers, not less numerous nor less active, will vie with 

 them in the cultivation of the extensive field of investigation on 

 which they have hitherto been engaged j and that the Scientific 

 Meetings of the Society will go on increasing in interest and in es- 

 timation as a most effectual means of acquiring and imparting Zo- 

 ological knowledge." 



