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Museum; he thought it had been a large fa£tor in the 

 education of the people, and when they looked at the 

 large number of visitors and saw Mr. Quelch giving in- 

 struction to all classes of enquirers, they might say it 

 was a public institution of very great value. The Museum 

 is, however, neither large enough nor sufficiently con- 

 venient either for preparing or exhibiting specimens, and 

 he thought they might fairly ask the Government for 

 aid to extend it. One of the objecls of the Society when 

 it was first started, was to keep up a correspondence 

 with similar institutions in different parts of the Empire; 

 this had been found difficult, and had been almost dis- 

 continued, but he thought the Society should again pay 

 attention to this matter. The Commercial Committee 

 promised to be of very great service, and if it should 

 ultimately develop into a Chamber of Commerce, the 

 Society would have the credit of having originated a 

 body of very great value. In conclusion he said that 

 he felt proud of the position in which their kindness 

 had placed him, and was not blind to its responsibilities, 

 and he hoped that the Society would not suffer in his 

 hands in 1889. 



The Treasurer laid over the Financial Statement for 

 1888, Statements of the losses and gains in members, 

 Balance Sheet, &c. In laying over these papers Mr. 

 Conyers said that, with the present number of members, 

 the income of the Society for 1889 would be $2,876, 

 which together with the rents would make a total of 

 $5,360. He thought that the expenditure could be kept 

 down to $5,000 without detriment to the interests of the 

 Society. Several items in last year's expenditure would 

 not occur again. The Museum account was kept separate, 



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