Report of the Council. 
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comers migbt be admitted during the earlier stages of their pro- 
ceedings, it has now been thought advisable to fix a maximum 
age for candidates ; no one who has passed his twenty-first 
birthday before March 31 st, can, in 1870, be admitted as a can- 
didate for the Society's honours and prizes. 
By order of the Council, 
H. M. Jenkins, 
Secretary. 
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