ANNUAL REPORT 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
May it please Your Excellency, and Gentlemen, 
I beg to tender my excuses for not having called this 
annual meeting on the day on which it is usually held. 
Your Secretary has been pi’evented by illness from gather- 
ing together the requisite materials for the preparation 
of this Report. 
His two attendants also could not help him, being- 
otherwise occupied with the arrangement for the last 
Exhibition. And as another drawback, our Treasurer 
absent from the Colony had not yet returned to render 
the annual account of his stewardship. 
I trust that these explanations will be found sufficient 
to obtain your indulgence. 
I will now proceed to endeavour to accomplish the task 
