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efforts of individual members, which, by the proposed plan, will 

 be directed aiight to the cultivation of special departments of scien- 

 tific research. 



At the same time it will be no gain to the Institute thus to have 

 subdivided its labours, if the members of these various sections for- 

 get that the object of all is one — " The advancement of Science, Lite- 

 rature, and Art." 



The following officers and members of council will retire next 

 March : — 



President — His Honor the Chief Justice, Sir Wm. F. Stawell. 



Vice-Presidents— F. Mueller, Esq., Ph.D., M.D. 

 C. Hodgkinson, Esq., C.E. 



Treasurer — M. H. Irving, Esq., MA. 



Secretary — John Macadam, Esq., M.D. 



Members of Council — Rev. J. I. Bleasdale, Hon. A. Clarke, Capt. 

 Pv.E.; W. Blandowski, Esq. ; T. E. Eawlinson, Esq., C.E. ; W. Gilbee, 

 Esq., M.R.C.S. ; W. E. Hearn, Esq., LL.D. 



Several letters, explanatory of the report, are appended. 



Adopted. 



WILLIAM F. STAWELL, Chairman. 



December 8th, 1858. 



