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for the use of the Sections during the winter meetings, which remain as the 
property of the general Society. These several items serve to explain the 
diminution of balance. The printing expenses for the future must necessarily 
correspond with the improved style of publication of report, but the 
Council hope to lessen this expenditure by admitting advertisements on 
the wrapper. 
Having passed in review the principal points which appear to call for 
notice, your Council feel justified in characterising the action and position 
of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, as thoroughly sound and efficient, and 
as well calculated to reassure and encourage those who may not be equally 
conversant with its steady developement. Your Council also confidently 
trust in the strength and vitality of an Association, which numbers 
amongst its members so many accurate observers and active contributors. 
In conclusion they beg to congratulate the Society on the position it has 
attained, and on the prospects before it. 
"Floreat Semper." 
