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and on which they should be required to make reports at 

 stated intervals to the General Committee. By this means 

 a great proportion of the sciences would be represented by the 

 various Committees, and a character of systematic and con- 

 tinuous research impressed upon the proceedings of the So- 

 ciety. A resolution to this effect will be made, and if acceded 

 to, the various Sub-Committees forthwith formed. The above 

 recapitulation, and it could be extended, is not one calculated 

 to give your Committee much pleasure, but still less does it 

 provoke any feeling like despondency, for your Committee 

 are not more assured that there are in the Island the materials 

 for the most various and important investigations, than that 

 there are men able and willing to bring them to light. Your 

 Committee will therefore submit to the Society, that a certain 

 sum be given to the reading Committee, the Report of which, 

 marked C, is laid upon your table, to enable them to publish 

 as soon as they shall deem fit. In the second class of ex- 

 penses, your Committee would include those for the purchase 

 of books and the furnishing of the Museum. The only out- 

 lay incurred by the Society at present for the first, is for the 

 Calcutta Review, the Geological J ournal, and the Statistical 

 Journal, so that it would be easy to afford a little sum of 

 money for the purchase of valuable standard works this year. 

 Your Committee would not presume to specify any books, 

 but it is their opinion that none but standard works should 

 be purchased at present, and that a good and cheap Book- 

 seller be employed. On this subject your Committee have 

 to remark, with extreme regret, that many valuable volumes, 

 some of them belonging to series, are not now to be found in 

 the Library. Your Committee subjoin a list, marked D., of 

 those that are deficient, and they confidently hope that any 

 Gentleman who happens to have any book belonging to the 

 Society in his possession, will apprise the Secretary without 

 delay, as that officer is now completing his Library list ; and 

 it would be most desirable to recover as many books as pos- 



