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Report to the General Meeting. 



recommended that a Ladies' gallery to contain 300 persons should 

 be included in the plan of the Pavilion as at Cambridge ; that 

 each Member of the Council and each Governor should have the 

 privilege of a ticket for the Council Dinner ; and that a Local 

 Committee should be appointed by the Council to carry out the 

 various details connected with the business of the Meeting, con- 

 sisting of Mr. William Miles, M.P., Mr. G. Webb Hall, and 

 three other Members of the Society residing in the neighbour- 

 hood" of Bristol, whom they shall select^ Mr. Miles being re- 

 quested by the Council to act as the Chairman, and Mr. Mar- 

 mont as the Secretary, of such Local Committee. 



The Journal Committee have reported that the new Part of 

 the Journal will make its appearance on Monday, the 20th of 

 December ; and that the second and third parts of the First 

 Volume, so long out of print, having been now reprinted, those 

 Members who were elected previously to the Cambridge Meeting, 

 but who had not been supplied with those Parts, should now 

 receive them on application to the Secretary. 



One of the great objects of the Council in reference to the 

 convenience and accommodation of the Members of the Society, 

 has long consisted in their possession of such an establishment in 

 London as would possess within itself the combined advantages 

 of a Museum, Model Room, Library, and Reading Room; and 

 your President has already transmitted to Her Majesty's Chief 

 Commissioner of Woods and Forests a memorial on behalf of 

 the Society applying for a suitable space of crown-land to form a 

 site for the Society's House, to be erected with a view to these 

 special objects. 



The District Committee have presented to the Council their 

 final Report recommending the division of England and Whales 

 into nine districts, from each of which in a certain succession, as 

 from time to time agreed upon, a place shall be selected for 

 holding the annual Country Meeting of every year, and the 

 Council have unanimously adopted the districts proposed to their 

 consideration for this purpose. The following tabular statement 

 gives a connected view of the districts themselves^ as well as the 



