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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
TRUSTEES. 
William Aldam, Esq. 
Edward Baines, Esq., M.P. 
William Beckett, Esq. 
Thomas Benyon, Esq. 
Thomas Blayds, Esq. 
Richard Bramley, Esq. 
Wm. Williams Brown, Esq. 
William Cadman, Esq. 
Thomas Clapham, Esq. 
George Goodman, Esq. 
Benjamin Gott, Esq. 
John Heaton, Esq. 
James Holdforth, Esq. 
James Garth Marshall, Esq, 
James Maude, Esq. 
William Perfect, Esq. 
John Hope Shaw, Esq. 
Thomas Tatham, Esq. 
Robert Disney Thorp, M.D. 
Thomas William Tottie, Esq. 
It is extremely desirable that the sum for carrying out the beautiful plan 
obtained by the Committee should be raised. Not less than £20,000 will be 
required to execute the plan well, and to leave a proper reserve for expenses. 
At Sheffield the sum of £23,000 has been raised for the same purpose; and 
surely Leeds ought not to be behind Sheffield .—Leeds Mercury , Dec. 23. 
CHELTENHAM HORTICULTURAL AND FLORAL SOCIETY. 
This Society held its annual meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 12, when a statement 
of the receipts and expenditure was read to the members by the chairman, Major 
Nutt. From this statement it appeared, that the income of the last year had 
exceeded that of the preceding one by above £20 ; and that, after defraying the 
expenses of the exhibition, and the current gratuities, there remianed £35 to be 
apportioned as prizes among the successful exhibitors. A proposition was sub¬ 
mitted to the meeting by the secretary of the Gloucestershire Zoological, Botanical, 
and Horticultural Society, for uniting the two Societies, and for holding the future 
floral exhibitions under the auspices of, and in connection with, that Society. As 
this proposition had, however, been brought forward without any previous 
intimation of an intention to do so having been given to the members generally, it 
was considered advisable to postpone the decision of the matter to a future 
meeting, to be specially convened for the purpose ; and in order to give it that 
due consideration which a proposition of such importance required, a committee 
was appointed to inquire into its practicability, and to confer with the Committee 
of the Zoological Society on the subject .—Cheltenham Looker-On , Dec. 16. 
CHELTENHAM LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION. 
On Tuesday evening, Dec. 12, Mr. R.Wolseley delivered the first of a short course 
of lectures on the science of Mineralogy. In his introduction, the lecturer en¬ 
deavoured to impress upon the members the necessity of their contributing to the 
instruction of each other by making known from time to time those principles 
and discoveries of science, for the spread and dissemination of which the Institu- 
