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ADDRESS OF THE COUNCIL. 
search in that neighbourhood. These investigations 
are now in progress, and the Committee are assisted 
in these interesting researches by the advice of 
Edward Holland, Esq., of Dumbleton, and Mr. Allen 
Stokes ; and it is not improbable that important 
discoveries may result. 
V. The labours of the Meteorological Committee 
have as yet been for the most part confined to the 
necessary arrangements, a long series of investigations 
being requisite previous to the obtaining of valuable 
results. The interesting observations of Mr. Addison, 
transmitted to the Council, have, however, been laid 
before the Society, and Mr. Lees will upon the 
present occasion favour the Society with a communi- 
cation upon the subject. 
LECTURES. 
The Lectures delivered to the Members and Friends 
of the Society were intended in the first place, 
especially to disseminate a taste for the pursuits 
of Natural History, and secondly, to give such infor- 
mation respecting these pursuits as was necessary 
to enable the admirers of Nature to enter into the 
investigation of the subjects before them with advan- 
tage. In the Report of the Committee appointed to 
draw up the Rules and Regulations of the Society, at 
its first formation, one of the clauses is as follows. — 
"That taking into consideration the importance of 
the Science of Natural History, as a whole, and the 
close and intimate connection of its several branches. 
