a s IP ® a 
Another year having elapsed since your Council 
had occasion, in accordance with its annual custom, 
to review the proceedings of the Society, and to offer 
fox the consideration of the members suggestions for 
more completely carrying out its objects, it has 'again 
devolved upon them to present a report of the work 
of the Society during the past twelve months. It 
gives them much pleasure to do this, believing that 
very great progress has been made during the past 
year, in the closer association together of a large 
number of the members, in a manner more calculated 
to advance the cause of science, increasing both the 
interest in, and the work done by, the Society. 
At the last annual meeting, the Society increased 
the number of members on its Council, an alteration 
which appeared necessary from the amount of work 
connected with the management of a Society so nu- 
merous, and extending its operations in so many 
directions. The experience of the past year has fully 
ijustified the expediency of the step then taken, the 
older members having been materially aided by the 
strength thus added, while their individual respon- 
sibility has been lessened. 
