THE COUNCIL. 
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Mr. Jonathan Gray will long be dear to a larger circle than 
onr own ; the public voice may raise a tribute to a worthy 
citizen, but all that here surrounds us is a lasting monument 
of our philosophic friend. 
Pressed by the weight of professional business, Mr. Wm. 
Gray, jun. has found it necessary to withdraw that active 
assistance which for eleven years he has rendered as Secre¬ 
tary to the Institution. 
From causes nearly similar. Professor Phillips, at an earlier 
period of the year, finding it impossible to give his attention 
to the Society's affairs for the period, or at the times, stipulated 
in the arrangement commenced in 1825, replaced in the 
hands of the Society the trust which had been committed to 
him;—but the Council, unwilling to break a connexion which 
has now subsisted for twelve years, proposed to him to con¬ 
tinue the general direction of the scientific affairs of the So¬ 
ciety, without any limitation as to time. 
The Council has requested Mr. Robert Davies to accept 
the office of Treasurer, and Mr. H. Robinson to act as joint 
Secretary with Professor Phillips ; nominations which, from 
the high character of those gentlemen, the Council entertains 
no doubt this meeting will confirm. 
The expenditure of the year has been great; but much that 
was required to be done has been accomplished; and there 
has been no waste. Independently of an augmentation of the 
salary of the Sub-curator, which has indeed been fully repaid 
by the additional duties undertaken and executed by him; 
the finances have had to bear the cost of a portion of the new 
insect cabinets, of the fitting up of the shelves for the col¬ 
lections of plants, of mounting the skeletons of the whale 
and the Irish elk, of repairing the Roman and monastic walls, 
and constructing a small hothouse for plants of considerable 
value. These things were necessary ; but the Council has 
gone further, and for the first time during many years, has 
expended in the purchase and preparation of specimens on 
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