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It soon became evident that the formation of these 
Sections met a want which had been widely felt in 
your Society, for shortly after the establishment of the 
Entomological Section, similar associations were set 
on foot for the promotion of Botany, of Geology, 
and of Chemistry including Photography, and at the 
commencement of 1865, a Zoological section was 
added to the list. A tabular statement of the Sections 
so formed, with the names of their officers, days of 
meeting, &c., will be found appended to this report. 
It gives your Council pleasure to be able to state that 
these sections have been the means of largely adding 
to the number of members of your Society, several 
gentlemen having joined it, that they might be 
enabled to share the advantages offered by one or 
! other of the Sections. The total number of 
' Ordinary members is now 240, being an increase of 
i26 upon the previous year. The number of your 
Corresponding Members has also been increased by 
the addition of names of high scientific eminence 
in their special departments. 
The creation of these Sections, each of them 
holding its meetings monthly in the winter months, 
and some during the summer also, has necessarily 
increased the obligations of the Society to the In- 
stitution, the Committee of which most readily acceded 
\>o the request of the Society for greater accommodation; . 
md your Council would suggest the propriety of pre- 
senting a donation of fifteen pounds to the Institution 
■unds, accompanied by a suitable vote of thanks, and 
m intimation that the Council of the Society are 
