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empowered to spend an additional sum of five pounds 
for the benefit of the Museum. 
Feeling as they do, the great importance of the 
association of the Society with the Institution, your 
Council cannot be indifferent to its proposed removal 
to another site, and they consider that it would be 
highly conducive to the interests of the Society, to 
obtain a permanent footing in the new building, for 
which a proper pecuniary equivalent could be paid 
yearly. 
With the view of meeting a want which was felt 
by several members, your Council determined during 
this year to form a Library of such standard scientific 
works of reference as were not possessed by the In- 
stitution^ or the Microscopical Society, and whose cost 
placed them beyond the reach of individual members. 
Permission to deposit them at the Institution, to the 
members of which, as well as of your Society, they 
were to be left open, was provisionally granted by the 
Institution Committee. Special funds for the 
establishment of this Library, were obtained in answer 
to an appeal issued by the Council, who venture to 
hope that during the ensuing year, a considerable 
increase will take place, both in the number and the 
amount of subscriptions for this purpose, which at 
present vary from Is., to ^1 Is. They consider that, 
independently of the great importance of possessing 
such standard works, the accumulation of property is 
one of the surest means of establishing the Society 
on a firm and enduring basis. 
