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done to improve it, and to make the water in the pond more 

 available than it was. 



The President said he feared he could not answer this ques- 

 tion so satisfactorily as the first. The water was beside the 

 gardens in abundance ; but the difficulty was to raise it to such 

 a height as to command them ; and that depended on what 

 stood in the way of a great many other improvements, namely, 

 the want of money. In managing their affairs they had been 

 obliged to use the utmost economy, in which they had been 

 aided by their worthy treasurer, who felt that however desir;: 

 a supply of water was, it would be very undesirable to go into 

 debt. What was wanted was an apparatus to raise the water, 

 and the subject had been referred to a committee, consisting of 

 Professor Haughton and Mr. Sanders. 



Mr. Sanders said the cost of raising the water and of pro- 

 viding means to convey it through the gardens — without which 

 pumps would be of no use — would be about £1 20. 



Mr. Haughton proposed that a subscription be at once entered 

 into for the purpose of carrying out the object referred to. 



Mr. Sanders said he would have very much pleasure in sub- 

 scribing. 



The Report was unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Sanders said the Council had deemed it advisable to re- 

 commend that the bye-law which provided that the President of 

 the Society should not be elected for a longer period than two 

 years, and that a President should be two years out of office 

 before he could be again elected — should be rescinded. It was 

 the Avish of the Council to re-elect their present excellent Pre- 

 sident, who had been already two years in office. With this 

 view he moved that the bye-laAv in question be rescinded, and 

 that Dr. Corrigan be elected President of the Society for the 

 ensuing year. A subsequent modification of their rules, by 

 which it was proposed to fix the time for which a President 

 might be elected, at five years, would be afterwards brought 

 forward. 



Dr. Barker seconded the motion, which passed unanimously. 



Dr. Templeton then moved — " That the same person shall not 

 be President for more than five successive years." The proposed 

 change had been discussed by the Council, and was fully ap- 

 proved by them. 



Dr. Stewart seconded the motion. 



Mr. James Haughton asked could these changes be legally 

 made, so as to bind the Society. 



The President said that any standing order or fundamental 



