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The Report also alludes to two other matters which I should 
like to bring more particularly under your notice. One is that 
we have devoted a considerable sum of money to the purchase of 
scientific periodicals for our library, and although it has helped 
materially to reduce our Treasurer’s balance, it is a good invest- 
ment. 
The other is the number of valuable donations that have been 
received from our members. Their names as donors have already 
been laid before you at the monthly meetings, and will be found 
recorded in our annual Journal, now on the table. I would like 
to read them over, but the list is too long. I cannot, however, 
refrain from calling your attention to one fact, that the spirit 
amongst us which these donations evince is a most satisfactory 
one to recognize. It is the source from which kindred Societies 
in England and elsewhere derive so many valuable books and 
instruments. And I have no doubt that when it becomes known 
that the donors’ names are permanently recorded as benefactors 
of the Society, and that such gifts in the hands of the Librarian 
become extremely valuable to the members, we shall have many 
more to record. From the three sources I have named, we are 
collecting a library, which as many of you are esse is rapidly 
filling our small council room. 
I hope that I have not been tedious in making these remarks. 
I have done so because I think we have arrived at a most 
important period of our history, and much of our future 
will depend upon the course we now adopt. For we have 
grown’ to be a large Scientific Society; we have divided 
ourselves into Sections,~and find many willing to work— 
more even than we expected, and we have no elbow-room in 
which to accommodate them. If this continues, it will be found 
one of the most effective things in checking the usefulness of the 
members, who at least expect a comfortable place to work in. 
Indeed, the Society has always wanted house-room, and it may be 
said, perhaps to its credit, that it has heretofore thought more 
of its work than its home. And I hope it will continue to do 
