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Winter Meetings. — Since the last Annual Meeting, 6 Winter 

 Meetings have been held, these have, on the whole, been fairly 

 successful and fairly well attended by our members, but still I 

 consider there is room for improvement both in the attendance 

 of our members and also for assistance by members in giving 

 papers and assisting more at the microscope and exhibition 

 meetings. 



The Lectures that have been given since the last Annual 

 Meeting are — a paper by Mr. W. H. Thomas, on " Earlier 

 Civilizations of Ancient Greece," delivered in April of last year. 

 " The Underground Waters of N. W. Yorks.," by the Kev. W. 

 Lower Carter, M.A. F.G.S., on November 24th. " Plant Life on a 

 Heather Moor," by Dr. W. G. Smith, on February 9th, the two 

 latter being given by Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Lecturers. 

 On March 23rd, a paper, entitled " Cleveland : its Geology and 

 Scenery," was given by Mr. J. S. Calvert, and illustrated by a 

 very interesting series of sketchs of local scenery. 



Microscope and Exhibition Meetings were held on December 

 loth and January 28th, under the direction of Mr. Simpson and 

 the Microscopy Sectional Committee. Exhibits were made by 

 M. L. Thompson, J. M. Meek, Frank Elgee, and T. A. Lofthouse, 

 and a number of our members and others kindly lent microscopes 

 and slides. 



All the Lectures were illustrated by lantern slides or diagrams. 



Membership. — The Club membership is 111. This being, I 

 regret to say, a slight decrease on last year, when the membership 

 was 114. 



Twelve new members have been elected during the year, 8 have 

 resigned or left the district, 1 died, and 6 have been struck off 

 owing to their subscriptions being in arrears. 



The work that is being done by the Club is, I venture to think, 

 worthy of more general support from the Cleveland district, and 

 I trust members will do their utmost to induce any interested in 

 Natural History or Archaeological Pursuits, to join the Society. 



Proceedings. — Since the last Annual Meeting, Vol. 1, part 5 

 of our Proceedings has been issued to members, together with 

 index and list of members, this completing our First Volume. 



