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The interest of our Meetings has been well sustained, and the attendance as large 

 as ever; the demand for our publications seems to be increasing ; our Library grows 

 more and more useful, is more and more used. The alterations in the Bye-Laws 

 which you have to-day adopted will provide a less cumbrous machinery for effecting 

 some of our principal objects, and rendering more prompt the action of the Executive. 



In fine, our term of office has not been a period of inactivity. Taking a calm 

 review of the past, the Council feels itself justified in asserting that, if not remarkable 

 for decided progress, the year 1863 at all events has not witnessed any retrogression. 



25th JanuarT/i 1864. 



