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especially ladies, and at the same time secure a good selection of works 
in other classes. When funds will admit of the renewal of more of the 
worn-out books, it is hoped that the proposed new catalogue will be 
prepared. 
Our PRESIDENT’S PROMOTION. 
We cannot conclude this foreword without expressing the wide- 
spread gratification felt by the Society in the appointment which has 
been conferred on its President. In the promotion of Mr. J. J. Nunan 
to this important official position we rejoice not only because it is a 
recognition of his brilliant legal and scholarly attainments, but because 
at the present time no choice which might have been made would have 
been likely to provide the colony with an official so thoroughly 
interested in and acyuainted with its needs, nor with such an alert 
perception of the directions in which effort may best be expended for 
their satisfaction. 
THE Screntieic Assistant EDITor, 
for the Editorial Committee. 
