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valuable papers which are now coming to the Society, there will be 

 no difficulty in this. 



I alluded last year to certain objections which had been made to 

 the present division of the Journal, according to the subject matter 

 of the papers published, and endeavoured to shew, that this 

 appeared to me a question which nothing but experience could 

 answer. I think now we can come to a definite conclusion in the 

 matter. There has been no difficulty finding good original matter 

 for both of the divisions, and a full number of Journals have been 

 issued, while the fact regarding the sale of these numbers are 

 sufficient in my opinion to x^rove how fully the public appreciate 

 the division. The returns of sales shew the following numerical 

 result : — 





Subscrib- 



Year. 



ed 





volumes. 



1860 



71 



1861 



69 



1862 



68 



1863 



70 



1864 



67 



1865 



108 



1866 



113 



1867 



80 



1868 



77 



1869 



77 



Double 

 numbers. 



13 

 15 

 15 



30 

 34 



Double 

 numbers 

 of previ- 

 ous years. 



Part I, 



numbers 



of current 



year. 



Part II, 

 numbers, 

 curr.year. 



Double 

 numbers, 

 curr.year. 



Division of Journal was introduced. 



45 



2 



3 



15 







5 



37 



36 



95 



38 



30 



64 



30 



46 



81 



This tabular statement shews that the applications for the 

 Journal, were in 1860 only 13, in 1864, 34, in 1865, the first year 

 after the division was introduced 51, and in 1868, 133 and for 

 last year 158. Now, not only does this satisfactorily shew the in- 

 creasing value attached to your Journal in this country, but the 

 separate sales of the separate parts, shew, I think, very conclu- 

 sively that a considerable proportion of this increase of demand has 



