COUNCIL FOR 1842. 
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The Annual Horticultural Fete, under the judicious Management 
of a Committee of the Members of the Society, took place on the 
third of August, and afforded the highest gratification to the inha¬ 
bitants of the City, as well as to the numerous Country families, who 
were drawn hither by the Meeting of the Agricultural Society. 
Favoured by a propitious day, the attendance was more numerous 
than on any former occasion, and the receipts, after deducting the 
necessary expenses, amounted to about £115. This casual accession 
of income has enabled the Council to comnlete the laying: out of the 
grounds near the Hospitium, and to form the drain there; a work 
which had long been considered almost absolutely necessary. 
In addition to this, the Gardens have been generally improved, 
and the stock of Plants greatly increased. An improvement has 
been effected in the Hothouse, by which that building has been 
made more available to the healthy growth of the valuable Collection 
of Orchideous Plants, now possessed by the Society, and which has 
been considerably increased by donations during the past year. 
Encouraged by the general prospect of the Society’s finances, and 
looking to the continued success of future Horticultural exhibitions, 
the Council hope to be enabled to render the Gardens still more 
attractive. 
The. Geological Collection has been enriched by the donation of 
several hundred examples of Organic Remains, and the Council 
have more pleasure in announcing this fact, because these additions 
are exactly in those parts of the series of Paleozoic organization, 
which are at this moment of special Geological interest, and which 
were imperfectly represented in the Cabinets. The contributions to 
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the Silurian series from North America, through the continued kind¬ 
ness of Mr. Jos. Clarke of Cincinnati, are extremely important, and 
contain many very interesting forms of Polypiaria, Crinoidea, Con- 
chifera. Cephalopoda, and Crustacea. Mr. Hatfeild, whose travels 
into remote parts of the world have always been the means of 
enriching the Museum, in which he has laboured when at home, has 
sent a choice selection of Organic Remains from the Silurian, 
Carboniferous, and Cretaceous groups of the United States, ex¬ 
hibiting on the whole a marked general analogy with the contem¬ 
poraneous forms imbedded in European Strata, and, at the same 
time, those lesser differences and variations of structure which are 
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