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therefore earnestly invite the co-operation of all who 
have the v/elfare of the Society at heart. 
It now remains to take a brief survey of the 
operations of the Society at its meetings during the 
past year, both general and sectional, the details of 
which have been regularly brought under the notice 
of members by the reports issued by your honorary 
reporting Secretary, who has been ably assisted in 
preparing records of the proceedings of the sections 
by their respective Secretaries. On the whole, your 
Council have reason to be well satisfied with the 
success of the meetings of the past year. The 
attendance has generally been very numerous, on 
several occasions including a large number of 
lady visitors, and the great interest taken in the 
proceedings has been shown by the discussions which 
have frequently taken place upon the communications 
made to the Society, and which have seldom failed 
to elicit much valuable information, and to afford 
suggestions for the future work of members. Your 
Council, while observing with very much satisfaction 
the greater readiness of members to make short 
communications of interest, (previous notice of which, 
however, is frequently not given in time for insertion 
in the summonses of meetings issued to members,) 
have still to regret the difficulty they experience in 
finding gentlemen who are willing to prepare papers 
for the Society, so that it has more than once fallen 
to the lot of your Secretaries, to provide subjects for 
the evening, in default of aid from other members, 
