REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 195 



travelling, comparatively few accidents have happened 

 to the slides. With the new issue of boxes it has been 

 decided, in order to facilitate the production of notes and 

 drawings, to send a larger Manuscript-book with each box. 

 And at the suggestion of several members, the names of the 

 circuits will be altered ; as owing to the withdrawal of some 

 members, and the addition of others, many of the names now 

 employed do not represent the localities to which they belong. 

 It has been proposed to name them alphabetically in future ; 

 and in order to distinguish the four boxes belonging to each 

 circuit, a number will be affixed to each letter. Several 

 additional Special Boxes have been put into circulation ; 

 amongst others may be mentioned one devoted to the 

 Foraminifera by Mr. C. Elcock, — one on the Linaria by Mr. 

 R. H. Moore, — and Diatoms by Dr. Partridge. 



At the date of the last Sub-Committee Meeting, there 

 were 170 members on the roll of the Society; of these 32 

 have been added during the last year ; two have resigned, 

 and it is with much regret that we have to record the loss of 

 a third, Mr. H. W. M. Jackson, of Ealing, by death. 



During the past 12 months seven Sub-Committee 

 Meetings have been held ; these have been fairly well 

 attended, and the business done has been of a very satis- 

 factory nature. 



One act of negligence in the detention of boxes has just 

 been detected and adjusted. It might have been avoided if 

 each member would conscientiously follow the instructions 

 given on page 5 of the last Annual Report, and which are 

 here reproduced : — " The Hon. Secretary would again remind 

 " all members that it is the duty of each one accurately to 

 " chronicle in the Register-Book provided for that purpose, 

 " the receipt and dispatch of all boxes ; and whenever any 

 " one finds that three weeks have elapsed without his receiv- 

 " ing a box, he should at once intimate the fact to the Hon. 

 " Secretary, who will then take steps to trace the defaulter ; 

 " and should the neglect prove serious, it will be laid before 

 " the Local Sub-Committee at their next meeting." But in 

 consequence of several members having kept no accurate 

 record, and in some cases none whatever, of the receipt and 

 dispatch of boxes, your Hon. Secretary had great difficulty 

 in tracing the offender. Books properly ruled for the purpose 



