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I am sorry to say that no work has been contributed to the 

 Proceedings on the Flora of Cleveland, or any district in it. I had 

 hoped that some of the members would have taken up the Flora 

 of the district along tlie North bank of the Tees, between Greatham 

 and Billingham, ground which will most probably be very materially 

 altered at no very distant date. 



LiBRABY. — Since our last Annual Meeting a suggestion which 

 was made at it has been acted upon, and our small Library has^ 

 been placed (on loan) in a special case in the Reference Department 

 of the Middlesbrough Free Library (by kind permission of the- 

 Free Library Committee). The Publications are now accessible 

 to such of our members as wish to consult them. The Librarian, 

 Mr. Baker Hudson, kindly published a list of the works in the 

 February number of the Middlesbrough Free Library Magazine. 



During the year I have received Vol. I., Part IV. of the 

 " Hull Naturalists' Trans.," "The Naturalist," "The Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union Trans.," " Historic Places in the Derwent 

 Valley," by J. W. Fawcett, "Birds Collected in Somaliland, &c.," 

 by A. E. Pease, M.P. 



Now that we have made suitable arrangements for housing 

 our Library, the Society would be glad to have any works bearing 

 on Natural History, Archseology, Sic, which any of our members 

 or others may see their way to present to us. 



Museum. — I have usually made a few remarks at our Annual 

 Meetings latterly with reference to the provision of accommodation 

 for Museum purposes being provided suitable for the town, and it 

 is very satisfactory to be able to say that through the munificence 

 of one of our principal citizens, Mr. A. J. Dorman, this is now 

 being provided (on a site which I pointed out as being a most 

 suitable one in my last Annual Report). 



Mr. A. E. Pease, M.P., is giving to the Museum a very 

 valuable collection of Natural History objects, obtained by him 

 during his expedition to Somaliland, &c. Both these gentlemen, 

 I am pleased to say, are members of our Club, and I may state 

 that Mr. Pease has promised to give us a Paper on the result of his 

 last expedition in Africa from a Natural History point of view. 



If the Club is deemed worthy of being consulted with 

 reference to the arrangement of the Museum, I have no doubt 

 that many of our members would be willing to assist, and also to 

 contribute specimens of various kinds, which would go a good 

 way towards forming the nucleus of a local collection, which I 

 consider is of the first importance in the arrangement of a local 



