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We are again indebted to the Council of the Cleveland 

 Literary and Philosophical Society for permission to use their 

 rooms both for Winter Meetings and Committees. 



Membership. — The Club has a membership of 114, this being 

 about the same as last year. Twenty new members have been 

 elected, one of whom has since left the district. During the 

 year several members have resigned or left the district, two 

 have died, and some have had to be strnck off owing to non- 

 payment of subscriptions. 



It will perhaps be interesting to know that we have members 

 at present in the following places : — Middlesbrough, Eagles- 

 cliffe, Nunthorpe, West Hartlepool, Redcar, Saltburn, Ingleby 

 Greenhow, North Ormesby, Ormesby, Great Ayton, Stockton, 

 Carlin How, Darlington, Stokesley, Whorlton, Marske, Nor- 

 manby, Guisborough, Boosbeck, and Grangetown. 



The Rev. J. Hawell and one or two other of our members 

 have been the means of adding to our membership during the 

 year, and I am quite sure if all members had done what they 

 could in this direction that we would have had a very material 

 increase on last year, in place of being practicaliy the same. 



The two members who have died during the past twelve 

 months were both prominent supporters. — Mr. R. G. Clayton, 

 who died suddenly in June last, was at the time a member of 

 your Committee and also Secretary of the Ornithological 

 Section. He was a keen Naturalist and an active worker for 

 the Society, being a frequent attender at the meetings, and 

 having contributed a good deal of material to the proceedings 

 during past years. 



Mr. Any us Macpherson, who died in the early part of this 

 year, had been a member of the Society since its formation, 

 and served three years as President, viz. : in 1886, 1887 and 

 1894. He for many years was a regular attender at our 

 meetings, but latterly owing to stress of work he had only 

 attended very occasionally. The Club were frequently indebted 

 to him for papers at the Winter Meetings, the last occasion 

 being in December, 1902, when he gave a very interesting 

 paper on Rome. He was well known and greatly respected 

 Dy all, and both he and Mr. Clayton are members who will 

 be very much missed. Short obituary notices are included in 

 these Proceedings. 



