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amounted to X3°3 4 s - 5^, the balance in Treasurer's hands 

 being ^"58 13s., while ^"400 worth of the York Street Spinning 

 Company's Debenture Stock is still held by the Shareholders. 



Professor Symington said that he had much pleasure in 

 moving the adoption of the Report and Statement of Accounts. 

 He need not say much, because it appeared to him that Report 

 generally was of a very satisfactory nature. During last winter 

 they certainly had a very excellent series of lectures, and he 

 was glad to hear that the valuable collection in the possession 

 of the Society was being taken good care of, and in many 

 respects rearranged and brought up to modern requirements. 



Sir Robert Lloyd Patterson expressed his pleasure in 

 seconding the resolution. He need not take up much of their 

 time, for in every way they considered the Report satisfactory. 

 He wished, however, to point out that but for the fortunate 

 circumstances of receiving a cousiderable sum from the local 

 committee of the British Association their finances would not 

 have been in the satisfactory condition they were. They could 

 not expect that item to arise again, and he would urge, as he 

 had done often before in that room, the importance of that 

 Society and the claims it has on public support, which claims, 

 he was sorry to say, were not recognized as the members felt 

 they ought to be. 



The President said he ought to take this opportunity of 

 expressing the great regret which he was sure they all felt at 

 hearing of the death of one of their oldest members, Mr. Isaac 

 J. Murphy. At one time he Avas a very frequent attender at 

 their meetings, and gave many interesting lectures, while he 

 also presented to the Society considerable apparatus. They all 

 regretted very much that he had passed away. 



In speaking of the Report, one of the things he was happy 

 to notice was the great preponderance of natural history papers. 

 Although he was not a naturalist himself, that was a naturalists' 

 society, and it was many years since they had so many, and so 

 good, papers on the subject. In former years it was left to the 

 engineers and other such people to save the Society from utter 



