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subscriptions ; and as the subscription has been fixed at the low 
rate of half-a-guinea, with the view of placing the advantages of the 
Institution within the reach of as large a class as possible, it is only 
by a corresponding increase in number, that the Society can obtain 
the requisite funds. Although the present number of subscribers, 
which is 163, may be deemed satisfactory, considering the short 
period of the Society's existence, yet when the great wealth and 
extent of the district are taken into account, there can be no doubt 
that a large accession of members may be obtained. The Council, 
therefore, earnestly recommend to every member, to institute an 
active canvass in his respective neighbourhood. 
The experience of the past year has suggested some alterations 
in the rules of the Society, which the Council, after mature delibera- 
tion, venture to recommend. It has been found that much uncertainty 
prevails as to the time at which the annual subscription falls due ; 
and it is therefore recommended that the practice of the Society 
should be assimilated to that of other Institutions, and that the 
subscriptions should be due on the 1st of January. 
The Council has also bestowed considerable reflection on the 
propriety of holding some of its meetings at other places ; and the 
result of their dehberations is to recommend that the June and 
December meetings be held in turn in the great towns of the Kiding. 
By this means it is hoped that a wider interest in the Society will be 
awakened and sustained, at the same time that information respecting 
the more remote localities will be more easily obtained in the neigh- 
bourhood to which it refers. It is also very desirable that the Annual 
Meeting should be held at a period of the year when the attendance 
of the President and Vice-presidents may reasonably be calculated 
upon ; and when an opportunity would be offered for sending invita- 
tions to the scientific strangers who attend the meetings of the 
British Association ; which would be accomplished by allowing the 
Council to fix such day in the month of August or September, as 
would suit the engagements of those who might promise to attend. 
There is no point which has been more earnestly urged on the 
attention of the Council, and none to which they have more devoted 
their thoughts, than the collection of a complete series of the organic 
