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ADDRESS OF THE COUNCIL. 
In this early state of the Society it was scarcely to 
have been expected that much progress could be 
made in this respect ; for though the materials are at 
hand, the observers are to be stimulated to action^ and 
in many instances the faculty of observation and the 
taste for its employment alike to be developed. 
Notwithstanding these difficulties, however, the Coun- 
cil have the gratification of directing the attention of 
the Society to the original and highly interesting 
observations and researches of Mr. Addison, of Mal- 
vern, Mr. Jabez Allies, the Rev. T. Pearson, Mrs. G. 
Perrott, Mr. Strickland, of Cracombe House, and 
other Members. Some of these communications 
have already been read at an Evening Meeting of the 
Society, convened for that purpose, others it is in^ 
tended to lay before the present Meeting, while it is 
hoped that the Society will upon future occasions be 
favoured with the papers and observations, not only 
of those Members who have already shewn themselves 
to be zealous cultivators of the field of science, but 
also of others to whom the same wide field of 
research has hitherto been an unfrequented if not 
a barren soil. 
BUILDING. 
The extent to which the Museum and Library have 
already attained, and the crowded state of the Lec- 
tures, render it necessary to contemplate at no distant 
