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the colony." An aviary in a suitable locality (the Botanic Gar- 

 dens) is in process of construction, and the arrangements have 

 been placed under the superintendence of an efficient sub-com- 

 mittee. 



An active sub-committee was appointed to revise the rules of 

 the Institute, and after several meeting's a code of rules was sub- 

 mitted to the Council and approved of. At a Special General 

 Meeting- the code was received and adopted with slight alterations. 

 The rules were afterwards printed, and placed in the hands of the 

 members. 



The subject of the obtaining of a Royal Charter has from time 

 to time engaged the attention of the Institute, but the Council 

 regret to state that no definite steps have as yet been taken 

 towards this object. They consider, however, that the period has 

 now arrived, when an immediate application with this view should 

 be made to Her Most Gracious Majestj r the Queen, and they would 

 particularly recommend to their successors in office the carrying 

 out of this desideratum. 



Your Council feel that they would be but imperfectly perform- 

 ing their duty, did they fad to bring prominently before the Insti- 

 tute in this report, the valuable services of the Secretary, Dr. 

 Macadam ; services which, in their opinion, have greatly contri- 

 buted to the success of the Institute ; and, when it is further con- 

 sidered how much valuable time the Secretary has given to his 

 gratuitous labours, they feel that justice demands this acknow- 

 ledgment at their hands. 



In thus submitting their Annual Report or Resume of the pro- 

 ceedings for the past year, the Council would again congratulate 

 the members on the prosperous career which the Institute has 

 enjoyed, and the prospect of increasing usefulness which is ex- 

 panding before it. They would strongly urge the members to 

 a continuance of that individual influence and exertion which alone 

 will enable the Institute to maintain and strengthen the position it 

 now occupies. And, in now resigning the the trust committed to 

 them, the Council sympathise with their successors in office on the 

 important duties which will devolve on them when energetically 

 carrying out the noble objects of the Institute, and rendering it, 

 in the fullest sense, a " National Institution," and an honor to the 

 land we live in. 



