REPORT 



In presenting- the Seventeenth Annual Report of the 

 proceedings of the Naturalists' Society, your Council, 

 whilst acknowledging gratefully the exertions of those 

 members who have contributed to make the past year 

 one of quiet prosperity, feel it incumbent upon them to 

 point out that the continued career of the Society will 

 largely depend for usefulness upon more general effort. 

 It is, of course, natural that we should be indebted for a 

 large proportion of the papers and lectures delivered at 

 our meetings to those members of our Society who are 

 professed students or teachers of science, but this ought 

 not to deter other members from giving us, from time to 

 time, the results of their observations or experience, 

 whether in some branch of natural history or some 

 department of experimental research. Let it be borne 

 in mind that every one who Avill can effectually help in 

 the cultivation of natural science, and may contribute 

 results of the highest value, whether considered as 

 additions to knowledge or as mere intellectual exercises. 



