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of seeing Mr. Barnes' beautiful and instructive slides, mostly 

 botanical, and principally illustrating "Mosses," with tbe life 

 history of which he is well acquainted. 



The attendance of members at most of the meetings was fairly 

 satisfactory, although on the occasion of one or two meetings, other 

 attractions and engagements probably militated against as good 

 an attendance as might have been expected. 



Membership. — The Club membership is 106, including 2 

 Honorary members. This being a slight decrease on last year, 

 when the membership was 111. 



During the year 10 new members have been elected and 9 

 members have resigned (mostly through leaving the district), 5 

 have been struck off for non-payment of subscription, and one 

 member has died, namely, Col. Chas. Lothian Bell, a member 

 who, although he did not attend the meetings, he was interested 

 in the Club's work, especially the Proceedings, to the recent part 

 of which he contributed a very complete Meteorological Becord for 

 Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, in 1904. 



A satisfactory feature in regard to the membership during 

 recent years is, that we are receiving a much more representative 

 Cleveland membership than we have hitherto had. 



I regret to say, that in my opinion, there seems to be a lack of 

 active workers in "Natural History and Kindred Pursuits" in 

 our midst at the present time, this is not as it should be, as 

 Middlesbrough is favourably situated for all branches of Natural 

 History. There seems to be no one working at the Mollusca, the 

 Marine Fauna and Flora, and many other branches in which 

 there is ample scope for workers in this district. 



Proceedings. — Part 1, Vol. 2, of the Society's Proceedings has 

 been issued to members during the year. This number is of 

 particular local value, and has been favourably commented on in 

 the Naturalist, Yorkshire Weekly Post, and other papers. All 

 the papers were of local interest. 



It is rather unfortunate that our membership is not large 

 enough to permit of printing Proceedings every year as we have 

 in hand at the present time, and could obtain from our members 

 papers that would keep the Proceedings going for some 

 considerable time. 



