REPORT 
O F 
Wijt Ctiuncil 
TO THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY^ 
ON THE 1st of FEBRUARY, 1831. 
In the last Report of thu Council a confident expectation 
was expressed, that in occupying the new museum, the 
Society might promise itself, from the enlarged scale of 
its establishment, a great advancement of its objects, and 
a wider field of public utility. 
The lapse of a year already brings proof that such an 
expectation was not unfounded; and the Council refer the 
Meeting for the most striking evidence of the extensive 
interest excited by the Institution to the fact, that the 
Admissions of Visitors for nine months during which the 
books have been regularly kept, have amounted to nearly 
four thousand, exclusive of the unrecorded visits of the 
Members and their families. 
In the number of those whose curiosity has thus been gra¬ 
tified, or whose investigations have been assisted, there are 
some from distant countries. And, whether it be desirable 
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