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and the retirement of another, since the last Annual Meeting, 

 Such events necessarily affect the movements of a Society 

 like this ; and they, with other circumstances, have concurred 

 to give an appearance of less efficiency to the proceedings of 

 the Society during the past year than we had any reason to 

 expect. On the contrary, our anticipations were of the most 

 favourable kind. 



But notwithstanding all this, your Committee cannot 

 doubt either the importance or the progress of the Society, 

 both absolutely and relatively. 



The funds of the Society have been accumulating, and are 

 at present larger in amount than at any former period ; and 

 in the course of the past year, a very considerable addition 

 has been made to the list of Members, while the donations to 

 the Library and Museum tend at once to enrich our stores 

 with objects of permanent value, and to evince a continued 

 confidence in your Society, as the proper depository of all 

 that may conduce to illustrate the condition or develope the 

 resources of the Island. And your Committee, observing 

 the contributions in Science made by Members of your So- 

 ciety elsewhere, cannot doubt that with better means for the 

 reception, examination, and arrangement of donations, such 

 would be very largely increased. 



And here your Committee would express a hope, that His 

 Excellency the Governor, who by his donations to the Library, 

 and the leave so readily granted by him to have the Journal 

 again printed at the Government Press, has manifested his 

 patronage, will favour the Society by directing arrangements 

 which will ensure to us a freer use of the room than we lat- 

 terly have had. This would allow an extended accommodation 

 for the Library and Museum, as well as for the Meetings of 

 Members ; and they confidently anticipate, that on a repre- 

 sentation of the matter, such an arrangement would be made. 



Your Committee therefore consider, that their attention 

 should be continued to this subject, with a view to such ex- 



