THE COUNCIL. 
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In pursuance of the direction of the Annual Meeting in 
1832, the Council have applied for subscriptions to remove 
this the only impediment in the way of the complete accom¬ 
plishment of the plans of the Society ; and in consequence 
<^.179 has been subscribed. The expense of the whole work 
is estimated at £A50 ; and it is the decided opinion of every 
person connected with the Zoological department that it will be 
highly advantageous to execute the whole work at once. 
Under these circumstances the Council have thought it right 
to appeal to the present Meeting for directions as to further 
proceedings. They may add, that, in order to aid in the 
execution of this desirable work, Mr. Phillips has proposed 
to place half the proceeds of his Course of Lectures on the 
Natural History of Animals, to be delivered in the ensuing 
month, at the disposal of the Society. 
By the munificence of one of the first friends of the Society, 
the Earl of Tyrconnel, the Laboratory is now become com¬ 
pletely furnished with every requisite for the active prosecution 
of original researches, as well as for the illustration of public 
lectures, and there is good ground for hope that the attractive 
and useful science of Chemistry will by these means become 
familiar to our Members : this will be the most appropriate 
acknowledgment of their sense of the motives which dictated 
this truly noble gift. 
The Council have again to acknowledge the liberality of the 
Rev. W. Hincks, in devoting the proceeds of a Short Course 
of Lectures on Botany to the improvement of the Garden. 
The Meteorological Committee present the following 
table of the oscillations of the barometer for 1833, for com¬ 
parison with that in the Report for 1832. The heights are 
reduced to 32° F. by Schumacher's Tables. 
