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station members and those not able to attend, have been made 

 aware of the Transactions of the Society, which now consti- 

 tute two very respectable volumes for the year 1853, besides 

 leaving much matter for publication in 1854. 



The funds also of the Society are in a very satisfactory 

 state ; at least when the out-standing subscriptions are col- 

 lected there will be a large balance in favour of the Society, 

 which it is hoped will go far towards raising a building fund 

 to enable the Society to provide more ample accommodation 

 for its rapidly increasing Library and Museum; also to 

 afford accommodation for the Society's Meetings of much 

 more suitable character than that which they now possess. 



In thus alluding to the Library, we cannot let pass the 

 opportunity for expressing the great obligations that are due 

 to the Hon'ble Mr. Justice Starke, for the interest he took in 

 the affairs of the Society generally, and particularly in this 

 department, which was an object of his special care and 

 attention. The arrangement and cataloguing of our books, 

 which hitherto were for the most part in a dilapidated con- 

 dition, and very much dispersed, had occupied him during the 

 last year that he held the office of Librarian ; and the result 

 of his labours is, that a number of volumes have been collected 

 from out-station members; the serials have been bound to- 

 gether ; and we now find that the Society is in possession of 

 a large number of well arranged and catalogued valuable books, 

 Previous to his departure he furnished the following Report 

 as to the present state of the Library, which I shall now read. 



Report on the state of the Library, 



In pursuance of the recommendation submitted in the Re- 

 port of the General Meeting of the Society held on the 5th 

 March last, a Catalogue of the Books has been made out. 



This was done from all available sources of information 

 respecting books presented to or purchased by the Society. 

 It may therefore be regarded as a Catalogue of the books 



