REPORT 
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, 
FEBRUARY 2nd. 1829. 
The Council have the satisfaction of presenting to the 
Annual Meeting, the Grant from the Crown of three 
acres of land, situated within the ancient precincts of the 
Monastery of St. Mary, and including the remains of the 
Abbey Church. The ground is assigned to Trustees for the 
use of the Society, on condition that it shall be applied 
partly to the maintenance of a botanic garden, and partly 
as a site for buildings appropriated to the purposes of 
science. The sign manual was first obtained soon after the 
last Annual Meeting ; but the legal advisers of the Society 
having stated an objection to the form of the grant, it was 
engrossed anew, and received the royal signature a second 
time. The Council advert to this circumstance, for the 
purpose of remarking the enlightened attention which is 
paid by the Government of this country to the interests of 
science ; an attention strikingly displayed in the uniform 
indulgence with which the applications of this Society have 
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