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about JE14, we should be about clear and in a position to go on 

 with further work of publication. 



There are a good many other members who could assist us 

 by contributing Papers of local interest, and I hope that more of 

 these will lend us their aid in the future. 



Botany Section. — The attention of the Botany Sectional 

 Committee is directed to an intporfanf jiaper in the "Naturalist" for 

 January last on Botanical Survey for Local Naturalist Societies, in 

 which workers are asked to undertake Botanical Survey work on 

 the lines laid down by the paper, in the Xorth Riding and other 

 parts of Yorkshire. As Cleveland forms an important part of the 

 North Riding it seems to be desirable that the botanical members 

 of our Society should take up this work and publish the result 

 of their labours in future numbers of our Proceedings. This 

 work, I may say, is being taken up by local societies in other parts 

 of the Country, and a Yorkshire Botanical Survey Committee has 

 been formed by the Y'^orkshire Nat. Union for the fiu'therance of 

 this valuable work. 



Library. — The only addition that has been made to the 

 Library this year is the volume of the Naturalist, for 1 902. I 

 have also received two numbers of a new quarterly magazine being 

 published on Natural History Subjects. 



The Club would be glad to receive any works bearing on 

 Natural History, Archseology, &c., especially those bearing on the 

 Cleveland district, which any of our members or others may see 

 their way to present to us. 



Museum — The building which is being erected by the muni- 

 ficence of ]\Ir. A. J. Dorman for this purpose has now made 

 material progress and it is possible that before our next Annual 

 Meeting that the building, with its collections, may be opened to 

 the public. 



I do not knoM' how it is jiroposed to manage and work the 

 Museum, but I should say that it is not probable that paid curators 

 will be engaged for all the ditferent sections of the exhibits, and 

 this being so I should say that it would be of advantage if 

 honorary curators for the different sections were appointed from our 

 society, of course, to work along with the curator and under the 

 Museum Committee. This is usual in many local museums all 

 over the country. It would also be well if our Club were to make 



