\ i Be port. 



unanimously agreed that no reduction is practicable, consistent with the 

 efficiency and safety of the Society. Two members have also complained 

 that, residing in the Mofussil, they derive no advantage from the Society 

 beyond the receipt of the Journal. On this the Council observe, that 

 it is manifestly the duty, as well, as the interest of the Society, to faci- 

 litate in every practicable manner, the researches of its members, by 

 providing standard works of reference in the Library — by permitting 

 such works as extensive circulation as is consistent with their safety — 

 by the formation of standard collections of specimens for comparison in 

 the several Museums — and above all by the maintenance of a Periodical 

 Journal, in which the researches of members may find immediate and 

 extensive publicity. The Council are willing to consider favorably any 

 proposition that may be made for remedying the inconvenience com- 

 plained of, and for rendering, under due precautions for the safety of 

 the Books and other articles, the Library and collections of the Society 

 more available to members resident in the Mofussil. The Council 

 however, are not at present prepared to suggest any specific measure on 

 this subject, and conceive that any measure of the kind that may be 

 proposed will require to be very carefully considered. 



Publications. 



Under the head of Publications the Journal claims the most conspi- 

 cuous notice. 



On the change of officers in November 184G, the Journal was 7 

 months in arrcar. All these numbers have been published and paid 

 for, and this year's series completed by the issue on the 7th of January 

 1848, of the number for the previous month. The 12 Nos. for the 

 year form a Volume of 1277 pages, with index, illustrated by numer- 

 ous plates, and containing a mass of original papers, embracing a wide 

 range of subjects of interest and value to the Philologist and Antiqua- 

 rian, as well as to the cultivators of natural and physical science. 



The Council cannot permit this occasion to pass by without recording 

 t hc'ii- grateful sense of the important services rendered in this depart- 

 ment during the past year by their Co-Secretary, Mr. Laidlay, under 

 whose management the Journal has been almost exclusively edited. 



