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The Secretary then read the thh'ty-fifth Annual Report. 



The Treasurer presented the statement of accounts for the 

 year 1900, and produced the balance sheet duly audited by 

 Messrs. J. M. Allen and W. J. Chapman. 



Mr. Hilton moved " that the Report and Balance Sheet now 

 read be received and adopted." He thought these would be 

 regarded as satisfactory, but would like to impress upon the 

 members the necessity of increasing their numbers, so as to bring 

 up the annual income from subscriptions to an amount sufficient 

 to meet their general expenses without having, as their Treasurer 

 had pointed out, to rely upon interest from investments and 

 proceeds of advertisements to make up the deficiency. He also 

 expressed a hope that more members would make an effort to 

 attend and exhibit something of interest on the gossip nights. 



The motion, having been seconded by Mr. Taverner, was put to 

 the meeting by the President, and unanimously carried. 



The President then gave the Annual Address — taking for his 

 subject the general characters of the various classes of Fungi, 

 which he illustrated by means of a large number of excellent 

 lantern slides. 



Mr. A. D. Michael, in moving " that the best thanks of the 

 Society be given to the President for his admirable address," 

 thought it was hardly necessary, after what they had heard and 

 seen, for him to say much to commend this resolution to the 

 members present ; for when a man talked about something that 

 he understood, and when in addition to this he had the resources 

 of Kew Gardens at his command to provide him with materials 

 in illustration, the result was sure to be something worth listen- 

 ing to. The members of the Club would doubtless agree with 

 him that theu' thanks were very cordially due to the President 

 on that occasion. 



Mr. G. E. Mainland having seconded the motion, it was put 

 to the meeting by Mr. Michael, and carried by acclamation. 



The President thanked the members for the way in which they 

 had listened to his remarks, and also for the cordial manner in 

 which they had passed this vote of thanks. He only regretted 

 that he appeared to be the only one in the Society who was at 

 present interested in fungi, but he hoped that some one else 

 would be found who would take the matter up. He could assure 

 them that the study would prove most interesting, and he should 



