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render good service by contributing specimens of objects in those 

 sections which are still but scantily represented. The following 

 additions have been made during the past year : — 



Total 



• • • « 



A. Allen 



74 Slides. 

 26 



2 



1 



1 

 14 



4 



6 

 22 



150 



)j 



Eight portraits have been added to the Album. 



Your Committee are glad to be able to announce that our 

 relations with other Microscopical and Natural History Societies 

 continue to be of a friendly and satisfactory character. In 

 particular they wish to refer to the honour that has been con- 

 ferred upon the Club by the Eoyal Microscopical Society in 

 constituting our Presidents ex officio Fellows. An interchange 

 of Journals and Proceedings also takes place with several 

 Provincial and Foreign Societies, and is productive of beneficial 

 results. 



The Excursions during the past year have for the most part 

 been well attended and productive, and the opportunities thus 

 afforded for meeting members of local Natural History Societies, 

 have aided in promoting the good feeling that it is desirable to 

 keep up amongst workers in the same field of research. 



The Conversazione held on the 14th of March last was very 

 successful, though the attendance was hardly so numerous as at 



