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for the congratulation you offer me on assuming the high office to 

 which Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint me. 



"It is "with great pleasure that I become the Yisitor of your 

 Academy, and I trust to have an early opportunity of visiting your 

 Museum, -with its far-famed collection of antiquities and objects of 

 Art. 



" The purposes for -which you were incorporated are well-known ; 

 and, as there appears to be at the present time an increasing recogni- 

 tion, of the value and importance of such institutions as your own" 

 from an educational point of view, I can with confidence express a 

 hope that the success which has crowned your efforts hitherto may 

 continue in increasing measure to accompany them in future. 



" I congratulate you sincerely upon entering into the second 

 century of your chartered existence, and I shall be most happy to 

 offer any assistance in my power with reference to the approaching 

 celebration of that event." 



The following recommendation of the Council was moved by the 

 Secretary of the Council : — 



" That the Council recommend to the Academy to continue the 

 Afternoon Meetings of the Academy, as during the present Session." 



Dr. Ingram moved, as an amendment : — 



" That the recommendation of the Council be adopted, with the- 

 omission of the word ' as ' before the words ' during the present 

 Session.' " 



The amendment was declared carried. 



On the Eeport of the Scrutineers, the Chairman declared the fol- 

 lowing elected as Honorary Members of the Academy : — 



Edward Frankland. 

 Lord Eayleigh. 

 Cardinal ISTewman. 

 Heinrich Schliemann. 



Donations to the Library and Museum were announced, and thanks 

 were voted to the Donors. 



