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Without a considerable accession of members, it will, however, 

 be impossible to record the proceedings of the Society so fully as 

 hitherto ; and the Council hope that the members generally will 

 take a lively interest in its prosperity, by attending the meetings as 

 frequently as possible, and by using their best endeavours to extend 

 the knowledge of the existence and objects of the Society amongst 

 their friends and acquaintances. 



Owing to the unfavourable weather, the Field Meetings that have 

 taken place have not been so successful as could have been wished. 

 Out of six meetings planned and arranged at a considerable expendi- 

 ture of time by your Secretary, in frequent visits to the proposed 

 places of meeting, of only three were the programmes announced 

 carried out, the others being altered, or abandoned altogether, on 

 account of the rain : one of these — July 1 7, to Pinner — was given 

 up entirely ; and at another — Oct. 2, to liickmansworth — the only 

 persons who assembled at the appointed place of meeting were 

 your Secretary and the Secretary of the Quekett Microscopical 

 Club — Mr. John E. Ingpen. At the Field Meetings which did take 

 place the following localities were visited : — 



May 1. — Berry Wood. 



■ 29.— Colne Valley Water Works, Busliey Kiln, Watford Heath Kiln, 



and Colney Butts Gravel Tits. 

 June 3. — Bricket Wood and Common, Munden Park, and Berry Wood. 

 29. — Aldbury, Ashridge Park, and Berkhampstead Common and Castle. 



The number present at each of these meetings was, as nearly as 

 can be ascertained, as follows: — 1st May — 30; 29th — 50; 3rd 

 June— 18; 29th— 32. 



At the first meeting, which was arranged in conjunction with the 

 Geologists' Association, there were about twenty-fiA-e members of 

 this Association present ; and at the second, about twenty members 

 of the Geologists' Association availed themselves of an invitation 

 to meet the members of our Society. If now it is taken into con- 

 sideration that the 1st of May and the 3rd of June were wet days, 

 and the 29th of May and 29th of June were fine, the disparity in 

 these numbers will be seen to be fuUy accounted for. 



The most successful and most enjoyable meeting of the year 

 must now be recorded. Our President invited the members to a 

 conversazione at his house on the 2nd of August, and provided an 

 intellectual treat such as ho alone could give, for the finest private 

 collection of pre-historic implements, weapons, and ornaments, in 

 existence, was displayed and commented upon by him. The kind- 

 ness and hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Evans on this occasion will 

 ever be remembered with pleasure : nothing was wanting on their 

 part to insure the enjoyment of their guests; and even the weather, 

 so fret^uently unpropitious before, seemed to vie with them in 

 making this a red-letter day in the annals of the Society. 



To our President also the Council desire to express their thanks 

 for the time and attention he has devoted to the attairs of the 

 Society. AVith unusually heavy demands upon his time, as Presi- 

 dent of more than one of the leading scientific societies of Loudon, 



