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systematic enquiry, or fails from deficient co-operation and from tlie 
disuse of regular observation, record, and practical discussion. 
Your Society has continued to meet every month within the 
walls of the Bristol Institution, where every accomodation has been 
afforded to it, and the use of specimens from its valuable Museum 
freely granted by the authorities for purposes of comparison or 
illustration. It is proposed to acknowledge the liberality of the 
Institution by appropriating from the surplus funds of this Society 
a contribution to its Museum, which has strong claims on public 
consideration, both from its extent and completeness, and the ample 
access afforded to its valuable stores by those who have the charge 
of it ; and in recommending this course your Council is of opinion, 
that you will be strictly carrying out one of the objects of yoar 
Society, viz. — the promotion of its particular class of studies. 
Tour Council also recommend the enlarging its numbers by 
the addition of members to act with the regular officers of the 
Society as a council. 
Your Council are happy to state that in general the 
meetings have been well attended, (the average attendance 
having been from fifty to sixty), and that the character of the 
papers has been creditable to the Society, and induces the hope that 
it will in future be well sustained. Mr. William Lant Carpenter 
has, for the last four months, kindly undertaken the reporting, and 
has already placed himself in communication with some of the 
scientific serials. 
