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Excerpt from Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Council, With the President's Address, and Papers and Notices Read to the Society, 1861
IN addressing you on this occasion, I shall refrain from making thou remarks relative to geological topics, which usually come from the chair at these meetings, and for the elucidation of which this Society was organized. I am induced to do so, because I feel that we have important matters to come before us relating to the erection of the building which is necessary in order to place this Institution in that state of efficiency which we all desire to see it; and as we have not only a good deal of ordinary business to transact, but also to read those papers upon geological subjects which gentlemen have been kind enough to send us, I think that we must limit our scientific discussion to the consideration of those particular documents. Now, with regard to the new building, the subject is one which we have had before us year after year, for a very long period. I may say that ever since I became a member of the Society, and especially ever since I have had the honour of filling the ofiice in which, through your favour.
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