Ixx Journal of Proceedings. 



The details of the establishment of the " Forest Camps Exploration 

 Fund " will be found in the " Journal of Proceedings." The Treasurer 

 reports that the sums given or promised up to January ist amount to 

 ;£'44 3s. This sum will enable the Club to work at one Camp as soon 

 as the weather is favourable in the spring, and in all probability 

 the surplus will be sufficient to cover the cost of printing the results of 

 the investigation in the " Transactions." It is very desirable that both 

 Camps should be examined, and the Council solicits further subscrip- 

 tions from members and others interested in the subject. 



Eleven Ordinary Meetings of the Club have taken place during the 

 year; 341 members have attended, giving an average of 31 for each 

 meeting. Seventy-six visitors have also been present. At the seven 

 Field Meetings held during the summer, 226 members have attended, 

 giving an average of 32, with 106 visitors. Your Council is fully 

 sensible of the great importance of interesting and instructive meetings ; 

 every effort will be made to maintain that character, and it is sincerely 

 hoped and requested that members and friends will in all ways within 

 their power aid such attempts. The Club is very much indebted to 

 those gentlemen who so kindly acted as conductors at the Field 

 Meetings. The Council also records with gratitude the pleasant 

 hospitality accorded to the Club on its visit to High Laver Rectory by 

 Mrs. and Mr. Rodwell. 



Two parts of the " Transactions " have been published, in addition 

 to the President's Inaugural Address, which comprises pp. 1-26, the 

 whole occupying 154 pages. Part I. is occupied by Mr. Walker's 

 lecture, a sheet of geological sections being given with it ; whilst 

 Part II. gives papers and full reports of meetings up to and including 

 November loth. The Covmcil is painfully aware of the paucity of 

 papers and communications submitted to the Club, but as this subject 

 is dwelt upon elsewhere, it is unnecessary to do more than refer to 

 it in this place. 



A few books and publications have been presented to the Club 

 during the year, which are duly acknowledged in the reports of the 

 meetings, but the Library is necessarily at present in an embr)-onic 

 stage. Pressure of other affairs obliged Mr. Argent to resign the office 

 of Librarian in October, when the post was taken by Mr. Alfred 

 Lockyer until the Annual Meeting. Mr. Lockyer offers his services as 

 Librarian, and he has already been working energetically to establish 

 friendly relations and exchange of publications with London and 

 Provincial Societies. Two rooms at the Head Quarters will shortly be 

 fitted up as a Library and Museum, and the Council earnestly begs 

 members and others to aid with books and specimens. A special 

 circular will be issued giving details as to the kind of specimens required, 

 and best mode of preparing the same for our collections. Two 

 contributions to the museum demand special notice : a small Herbarium 



