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Appendix : — Proceedings of 



second of these questions, your Committee are of opinion., 

 that the expense constitutes a very great objection to any 

 change of residence for the present. Your Committee cannot 

 close their Report without referring to the loss which they 

 have sustained from the absence of Dr. Mac Vicar, They feel 

 assured that he would have been a most willing and able co- 

 adjutor in our present efforts to renew the profitable and 

 important enterprises appropriate to our Society, and that his 

 endeavours would have elicited the same appreciation which 

 the Parent Society once so markedly expressed. Other with- 

 drawals from the ranks of the Society, and not so temporary 

 as it is hoped will be that of Dr. Mac Vicar, your Committee 

 have great regret in remarking, even though the loss is more 

 than made up by the recent additions to our numbers. 



Your Committee append a list of books they have received 

 since last meeting, marked H. and attached to the Report, which, 

 as well as the correspondence of the Society, the Report of 

 the Sub-Committees, the Meteorological observations of Cap- 

 tain Higgs, Trincomalie, and Captain JSTeill, R. A., Colombo, 

 they now submit for your inspection ; and they close their 

 Report with the confident hope, that before the next General 

 Meeting their efforts to increase the utility and activity of 

 the Society will be attended with success. 



W. F. Smith Neill, 

 Secretary. 



List of Papers, Sfc, put upon the Table. 



A. The Treasurer's Report. 



B. Two letters from Captain Chapman, with a seal, and two copies of 



Prinsep's Alphabet. 



C. Report of the Committee on papers. 



D. List of missing books. 



E. Letter from Mr. E. L. Layard to the Secretary. 



F. Report of Committee appointed to confer with the Committee of 



the Athenaeum. 



G. Report of the Committee appointed to seek for better accommoda- 



tion, &c. 



H. List of books received since the last Meeting. 



