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ciety of London, by whom an abstract of it was printed. Your 

 Committee would recommend that Mr. Taylor be requested to fur- 

 nish data up to the present time, so as to enable the Society to 

 make a fresh and improved digest of its contents which are highly 

 interesting. 



Your Committee cannot refrain from noticing amongst other oc- 

 currences bearing upon the subject of this Society, the appointment 

 by the local Government of Dr. Gygax to the office of its Geologist 

 and Mineralogist: it is mentioned here because your Committee be- 

 lieve that it was the Society which first publicly directed the at- 

 tention of the Government to the total absence of all data con- 

 nected with the resources and capabilities of the Colony. 



The Society's Library has had some interesting additions made 

 fo it, in some Slatistical works of value, amongst which may be 

 instanced the Criminal Statistics of Bengal, and the Journal of the 

 Royal Statistical Society of London. 



In conclusion your Committee trust that each coming year may 

 witness some accession of useful information to the Society, and that! 

 no difficulties or discouragements may check the labours of suc- 

 ceeding Committees, convinced as they are that the value of the 

 data which may be collected in this Island, cannot well be over- 

 estimated. 



JOHN CAPPER, 

 • Secretary of Statistical Committee. 



Resolved 7th.— That the Report now read be received and adopted, 

 that the thanks of the Meeting be presented to the Statistical Com- 

 mittee, and that the Gentlemen composing that Board be requested 

 to continue in office another year. 



8th.— That the thanks of the Meeting be presented to the Pro- 

 prietors of the Journals which have inserted, free of expense to the 

 . Society, the notices of its Meetings and proceedings during the year. 



9th.— That the thanks of the Meeting be presented to the officers 

 of the Society for their services during the past year. 



