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ADDRESS OF THE COUNCIL. 
acquainted with the objects to which the Lecturer 
called their attention. 
Many interesting facts connected with the elegant 
and truly delightful Science of Botany, were brought 
forward in the same Lecture, as well as in that 
delivered by Dr. Streeten, in the second series. 
Geology received ample illustration in the Lecture 
given by Mr. Morris, both in the theoretical and 
practical details of the Science, and the interest with 
which the sketch of the Geology of the Malvern 
Range was listened to, and the many valuable papers 
connected with this subject which have been laid 
before the Council, sufficiently evince that this field 
of research will not prove a barren one to the 
Society, 
Mr. Addison, in taking the subject of Meteorology, 
and conducting the Society rapidly through the curious 
details of that branch of the proceedings of the 
Natural World, filled up the plan of operations ; the 
Lectures delivered before the Society thus affording 
information respecting each department of Natural 
History for the investigation of which Committees 
have been especially appointed. 
The Council trust that another arrangement which 
they have felt themselves called upon to make, in the 
discharge of the office to which they were elected, 
will meet with the approbation of the Society. It 
soon became apparent to them, as it must neces- 
sarily to every person at all acquainted with the 
Science of Natural History, that without some 
knowledge of Chemistry many of the most interest- 
