taken up his vesitleuce hera, b33)m33 an active member. He will be a 

 great acquisition to our P^ntomologists, who, though our most active 

 and energetic members are few in numbers. Miss Ormerod, who has 

 been chosen l)y tlie council to fill the vacancy, is the well known 

 English Economic Entomologist. The Club is indebted to her for 

 many favors in the ships of book-> an I reports on Economic Entomology, 

 all of them of great value. 



I have now given vou a brief sketch uf what we have done during 



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the past season, and it may not be ami.ss here to look back at v/hat 

 has been accomplished since our organization eitrht vearsago. Through 

 the wisdom of the first council a printed record has been carefully kept 

 of all our transactions since the beginning, and when the question is 

 asked, " what have you done?" we are now in the position to show 

 from our volumes of transactions no unconsiderable amount of good 

 solid work. 



I have had the Transactions issued during the past eight years 

 bound in one volume, which I now show to you. It is a goodly volume 

 and contains a satibfactory record of the work of the Club. On exam, 

 ining the contents it will be seen that they are varied and interesting, 

 and that every dejiartment of Natural History is treated of to a greater 

 or less extent. I find that thirty-eight members of the Club have been 

 contributors to the volume, and that it contains sixty-one Papers read 

 at the Soirees, and also thirty-two Reports and eleven short papers or 

 Notes. 



As might be expected. Botany is found to head the list with nine 

 papers; Entomology comes next in order with eight; Zoology, Min- 

 eralogy and Geology have each six; Conchology has three, and there 

 are fifteen miscellaneous papers, among which ai-e such as Mr. H. B. 

 Small's on Mu.seum Education, Sir James Grant's on the Brain, and 

 Mr. W. D. LeSueur's on Design in Nature. 



A valuable feature of the volume is the lists which it contains, 

 such as tho.se of Blants, Shells, Birds, Beetles, Fossils, etc. 



But, important and valuable as our work undoubtedly his been 

 in investigating and recording the results as shown by our transactions, 

 there is another department of it which I think is of even greater 



