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Third Annual Meeting of this Society was held at the Grand Hotel on Wednesday evening, July 14th 1875 at half-past eight o’clock.

The chair was taken by Sir Harry S. Parkes.

The Minutes of the last two General Meetings having been read and confirmed, the Annual Report of the Council was then presented as follows:

The Council have much satisfaction in reporting that the advantages have never been more marked, or the progress of the Society more encouraging than during the past twelve months.

In evidence of this they refer to the fact that it has been found expedient to issue an extra number of the Society’s Journal, containing Transactions, &c., up to the end of 1874. The contents of this, and of the supplementary number, which is about to to be issued, are as follows:—

I.—Useful Minerals and Metallurgy of the Japanese, by Dr. Geerts, of Nagasaki.

II.—Observations on the Bay of Sendai, by Captain St. John, H.M.S. Sylvia.

III.—Useful Minerals and Metallurgy of the Japanese, by Dr. Geerts, of Nagasaki.

IV.—Description of a Trip to Niigata, along the Shinshiu-road and back by the Mikuni Pass, by J. A. Lindo, Esq.