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interchange of “ Proceedings,’ a more extended publi- a 
cation of papers of general interest, and other important _ 
advantages were expeéted. They would request the 
attention of the members to the following extra& from __ 
the celebrated Professor LIEBIG’s letter to the Society :— _ 
“ There cannot be a more beautiful and striking 
exemplification of the genuine British spirit than the 
disposition shewn by the most distinguished and best- 
informed men in the remotest parts of the great empire to 
form themselves into Societies, which have for their objeét 
the extension, promotion and application, for the public 
good, of scientific principles.” 
The Committee expressed their hope that this high 
though well-founded opinion of the genius of the nation 
to which they had the honour and good fortune to belong, 
and which had been elicited by their proceedings, would 
be more fully substantiated by future energy and con- 
tinued stability of purpose, 
Such were the main points dealt with in the first 
annual report, and the second showed that a livelyinterest __ 
in the Society’s objets had been still retained. Wecan 
do no more than glance at this, as we have probably tried 
the patience of our readers with the first report. . 
The Committee said that since the first anniversary 
no occurrence had taken place more worthy of notice or 
more deserving of being esteemed as a harbinger of 
good, than the aé€tivity and increased energy with 
which everything bearing on the improvement of the 
agriculture, manufa€tures, and commerce of the colony 
was entertained and discussed. In producing that 
change the Society might with. justice pride itself on 
having been to a considerable extent instrumental, and 
