380 TIMEHRI. 
On the motion of Mr. Thomas Daly, seconded by 
Archdeacon Gwyther, a vote of thanks was accorded to 
' the Committee for the trouble they had taken in getting 
up the Horticultural Show, and for their valuable report, 
The Secretary reported that the Directors had received 
an application from Mr. Ellis Barton for the sum of £50 
to enable him to perfeét an invention for the improved 
manufaéture of sugar; to which request they regretted 
they were unable to accede. 
The Secretary also reported that the Directors had 
authorised the Librarian to enforce the rules in regard to 
the time for keeping books, and to impose the fines for 
detention beyond the number of days stated in them. 
Mr. T. S. Hargreaves brought forward his motion for 
printing the proceedings of the Society, in view of the 
discontinuance of Zzmehrz. 
He had been asked the other day, he said, by a friend 
in London, if he was responsible for the discontinuance 
of the Journal. He certainly could not remember that 
such was the case, as all he had to do with the matter 
was to propose in the Committee of Correspondence, 
which Committee he then believed had the control of the 
Journal, that a Sub-Committee should be appointed to 
assist the editor, However, this had fallen through, and 
the next thing he heard was that the Directors had 
always had the control of the Journal, and that they had 
decided to discontinue it. He thought it would bea pity 
to give up printing the proceedings, for he had found 
them very useful, and he also thought they might con- 
tinue to use the name. He would like, with the consent 
of the meeting, to alter his motion to the following :— 
‘That the Directors be requested to print the Pro- 
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