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should be attempted. But whilst the Council think it prudent 
to recommend this course, they must remind the Meeting, that 
it would require a long course of years to discharge the incum¬ 
brance by so tardy a process; and considering the place 
which the Institution now holds in the opinion of the public, 
they hope that it will be relieved from these difficulties by 
more speedy means. Forming part, as it now does, of a 
system which promises, ere long, to bring again within the 
area of this Museum an array of all that is distinguished in 
British Science, it may justly expect that before the time 
arrives when the national Association shall 66 return in its 
periodical revolution, to the point of its first attraction,” an 
object so important to the character and exertions of the 
Society will be accomplished, and that it will be rendered in 
all respects worthy to be numbered among the efficient scien¬ 
tific establishments of the country. 
