REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 249 



The Croydon Microscopical and Natural History Club. 



We gather from the Proceedings of this Club, which appear to 

 cover the two years 1884 and 1885, that there are 246 members, 

 6 honorary members, and 2 associates on the roll, and the finances 

 of the Club are in a very satisfactory state. Seventeen valuable 

 papers appear in the Transactions. 



Chester Society of Natural Science. 



We have before us the Sixteenth Annual Report and State- 

 ment of Accounts for 1886 — 87 and the List of Members for 

 1887 — 88, and learn from it that the Society is now located in 

 the Grosvenor Museum building, and that during the last year 78 

 new members have been elected, making a total of 585 members. 

 The work of the Society and the means by which it endeavours to 

 keep alive the interest of the members is described under the fol- 

 lowing heads : — Excursions ; General Lectures ; Evening Ram- 

 bles ; Sectional Meetings ; Conversazione ; and Prizes. Six 

 lectures on subjects of great interest were given during the six 

 winter months, and on alternate dates at the same season several 

 papers were read on subjects relating to Geology, Microscopy, 

 Botany, and Zoology. 



Hackney Microscopical and Natural History Society. 



We learn from the loth Annual Report that this Society now 

 consists of 74 members. It is pleasing to notice that the 

 attendance at the meetings has reached a higher average than that 

 of recent years, and that the meeting to which ladies and friends 

 were invited was sutficiently successful to warrant an early repeti- 

 tion. A short abstract only of the papers read is given in the 

 report. 



The East Kent Natural History Society. 



We have received No. 2 of the new series of the Transactions 

 of this Society, which contains copies and abstracts of 9 papers 

 read before the Society. These were on The Water-Supply of 

 East Kent ; Bos Longifro?is; Our Social Wasps ; A Sanitary Law 

 Exemplified in Vegetable Life ; On the Dental Apparatus of the 

 Higher MoUusca; Notes on the Intelligence of a Young Raven; 

 Some Physical Conditions of Smut in Wheat ; Malformed Fruit of 

 a Sloe Tree ; Trichinodina as an Endoparasite ] and a number of 

 Short Notes. 



