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catalogue printed, so as to bring the books more under the 

 notice of the scientific public. A more pressing requirement, 

 however, is the question of printing the catalogue of Irish 

 antiquities, which would add very much to the interest of the 

 fine collection in the possession of your Society." 



The Chairman, in the absence of Mn Brown, Hon. Trea- 

 surer, read the financial statement, which showed a balance in 

 favour of the Society of £6 2 9s. 2d. 



Mr. Henderson said he had great pleasure in moving the 

 adoption of the Report read by their Secretary, and also of the 

 Treasurer's statement of accounts. He was very much gratified 

 at the Report, and he thought they had reason to congratulate 

 themselves individually, and Mr. Young, their Secretary, in 

 particular, on the very large number of lectures that were 

 delivered during the past year, on their varied character, and 

 their general excellence. He must ask the members to receive 

 his apology for not coming far oftener to those lectures ; but 

 really when one has two or three meetings to attend in a week, 

 to come to a fourth is a little too much, and he found it 

 utterly impossible to attend more than once a month. He had 

 been present at two of the lectures during the year, and there 

 were some present who could support him when he said that 

 they were well delivered and most interesting ; while the 

 subjects discussed were calculated to benefit all who were 

 of an inquiring turn of mind. Mr. Young, their Secretary, 

 was kind enough to invite him (Mr. Henderson) to deliver 

 a lecture on his trip to America ; but he asked Mr. Young 

 to excuse him from doing so, as he hoped to go back and visit 

 that wonderful part of the country towards San Francisco. 

 He thought the two together would make a better lecture 

 than merely half the journey. The Treasurer's statement 

 was exceedingly satisfactory. It quite surprised him to find 

 an institution of that kind having a balance of ^"62 odd. 

 He trusted that those much-needed improvements, which it 

 was not necessary to enumerate, would be successfully carried 

 out, and that at next year's meeting they would be able to con- 

 gratulate the members on the improved appearance of the 



