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Conclusion. 
In concluding their forty-fourth Report, the Council believe 
they may with propriety on this, as on several former occa- 
sions, offer to the Fellows their most sincere congratulations, 
both on the flourishing state of the Society and on its future 
prospects. There can be no better test of the popularity of 
the Society than the large and increasing number of admissions 
to the Gardens, which in 1872 attained an almost unprece- 
dented total. As regards the more purely scientific branches 
of the establishment, the Council believe that there is equal 
reason to be satisfied with the progress made during the past 
ear. 
x In conducting the Society’s affairs to their present state 
of prosperity, the Council have to acknowledge the assistanee 
they have received from those gentlemen who have served on 
the Committees of Publication, Audit, and Finance since the 
last Anniversary. 
Signed (for the Council), 
P. L. ScLaTEr, 
Secretary. 
11 Hanover Square, April 29th, 1873. 
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£6 NOV. 90 
