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ADDRESS OF THE COUNCIL. 
therefore in so efficient and flourishing a state as 
could be wished. Stilly however^ it already boasts of 
several very valuable works. Among these stand 
preeminent the State Records^ amounting to upwards 
of 70 vols, folio^ the information contained in which 
is intimately connected with the department of Statis- 
tics^ and still more with that of Archaeology, to which 
as being of such high importance, the Council are 
desirous the attention of the present Meeting should 
be turned. For this highly valuable work, of which 
a limited number of copies has been printed, and only 
for especial distribution, the Society is indebted to 
the munificence of Sir Thomas Phillipps. 
To Captain Winnington the Society is indebted for 
another work in the same department of Science, the 
Population Returns, according to the last Census, in 
S vols, folio. In addition to these we have Loudon's 
Magazine of Natural History, from the commence- 
ment, presented by Dr. Nash ; various works on 
Zoology, by Mr. Holl, Mr. W. Redding, Mr. H. 
Moore, Mr. E. Newman, and Miss Lovett, of Claines; 
in Botany by Mr. B. Maund, Mrs. Fermor, and Mrs. 
Holyoake ; and in Geology by Dr. Hastings and Mr. 
Evans ; together with several periodicals and other 
works purchased at the recommendation of the res- 
pective Committees. 
Proceedings of Committees. 
The Council now beg leave to present a Statement 
of the proceedings of the several Committees, which 
