REPORT OF SOCIETY’S MEETINGS, 409 
G. B. Steele, on “ The, Pyramids, and Sphinx”; the 
second, by Mr. Allan E. Messer, on ‘‘ The British 
Cabinet”; and the third, by Mr. S. M. Bellairs, on “The 
Stately Homes of England,” illustrated by photographic 
views by the Hon. E. C. Luard. With regard to agriculture 
he believed the Agricultural Committee would report, 
therefore he would not trespass on their province. For 
his own part he wouid like to say he was anxious that 
the agricultural work of the Society should advance, and 
to that end wrote to some seven gentlemen, competent 
_to deal with agricultural questions, asking them to read 
papers at the Society’s meetings. He was sorry to say 
that neither of them had been able to do so, and he re- 
gretted to state that no agricultural papers had been 
read. He would leave it to the Agricultural Com- 
.mittee to say how far they had attempted to stimulate 
the interest in agricultural matters, and to what ex- 
tent they had been successful. He should have men- 
tioned that the number of le€tures was small but. he 
hoped they would hold him free from blame in that 
respect also, because he had applied to a number of 
competent gentlemen, but only two or three promised 
to prepare them. They all knew that leCtures required 
time and thought, and in these times he supposed it was 
not convenient for busy men to prepare le€tures such as 
they would like to deliver before the Society. With refer- 
ence to the Library the Assistant Secretary informed 
him that it had been increased by the addition of over 
six hundred volumes, making a total of more than seven- 
teen thousand. He supposed that in a way the Society 
had cause to be proud of such an important library, 
-but he must confess for his part he always looked ‘upon 
