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ings of the Society half-yearly or annually, under the 
name of Zimehrz.” | 
Having read an extraét from the European Mail sug- 
gesting that efforts be made to gain the support of West 
Indians in London, before giving up the Journal, Mr. 
Hargreaves remarked that this suggested that the Society 
was too poor to continue its publication. This question 
of poverty was, he thought, a bogey raised by the Directors. 
They had found it possible to stand the loss tor fifteen 
years and it had never before been stated that the Society 
could not afford it. If the expense was too great it might 
be published less often, or perhaps at a lower cost. That, 
however, was a matter for the consideration of the Direc- 
tors, but he must say that if they stopped the publication, 
they discontinued the means they at present possessed 
of passing on the Society’s work to future generations. 
Sometimes they had papers read at the meetings which 
were the result of years of work and experience, and al- 
though these were published in the newspapers, this 
mode of publication was necessarily’ very ephemeral. If 
Zimehrt were discontinued these papers would be almost 
useless. If the Society was to exist as a semi-scientific 
Society it should do as other learned Societies through- 
out the world did, z.e., publish their proceedings. The 
editor would bear him out in saying that many valuable 
exchanges were received. If the Journal were stopped it 
would undoubtedly lower the status of the Society and 
give reason for the taunt of Dr. Carrington that the 
Society was nothing more than a Circulating Library, 
Mr. A. R. Gilzean, in seconding the motion, said that 
the President was aware that there was little life in the 
Society, and he thought that the best thing they had done 
