S^ Anniversary Address. 



ten years' transactions contain three times as many papers as 

 the first ten. While these subjects are thus in the ascendant 

 other subjects seem to have become neglected. Ichthyology 

 for instance produced 7 papers and notices during the first 

 ten years and only one since, and that one is not within the 

 last ten years. Meteorology also has only produced one no- 

 tice during the last ten years while our transactions contain 

 8 during the first ten. When this subject is attracting so 

 much attention generally, is there no member of our club 

 able and willing to examine the local meteorological state 

 and changes of our district ? Geology, botany, and ornithology 

 continue their equable progress, the number of papers during 

 each decennial period being nearly the same. 



To ascertain the progress of the club in these different 

 branches of our subject, I made a rough analysis of the trans- 

 actions, and the following is the result of it. During the 

 existence of the club it has printed on 



Geology and mineralogy 





16 



papers & notices. 



Botany 







37 



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Ornithology . . 





. . 



24 



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Ichthyology . . 







8 



» }) 



Meteorology . . 





. . 



15 



f) )> 



Entomology . , 



. . 



. . 



31 



t) >i 



MoUusca, Crustacea, 



zoophytes, 



&c. 



28 



}) )y 



Archaeology 



. . 





46 



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Miscellaneous . . 





. . 



10 



}} J> 



In all 215, 



many of which would do credit to our most learned societies. 

 With thanks for the consideration which I have met with 

 in the discharge of my not very arduous duties, and with 

 pleasurable recollections of the meetings of the year, I now 

 resign to my successor the ofiice with which your kindness 

 has honoured me, but which I am sensible I have unsatis- 

 factorily filled. 



