IMPORT OF Tin: SECRETARY 
TO 
l lt.h April 1872 to 3 rd May 1873 . 
Your Honor, 
Gentlemen ot‘ the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, 
Our last Anniversary Meeting was held on 11th April 
1872 — Our Chairman being the Honorable Ed. Newton, 
our President and at that time Colonial Secretary — This 
one is our 41st Anniversary Meeting since the foundation 
of the Society. 
The numerous and important duties which have de- 
volved on our Honorable President, in consequence of 
the high functions to which he has since been called, as 
Officer Administering t he Government, have, not prevent- 
ed him from attending this Meeting. — We owe him our 
thanks, aud trust that the kind interest he has always 
evinced to our Society, will not be discontinued. 
His pai’ticipation in our labours, is an example which 
