October 4, The Cypris Clay of the Weald, The President ; Description of 

 Geaster Fimbriatus, and other Fungi. Mr. James Reid, F.R.CS. 



Xovember i, Wind, asa Geological Agency, Mr. G. II. Nelson, M.A., F.R.G.S. 



December 6, The Spectroscope, in connection with Rain Bands, Mr. W. IIam.moni). 



January 3, 18S3, The Gall Flies of Oak and Rose, Mr. G. S. .Sal'nueks. 



Tlie following: members have also added to the interest of 

 the evening meetings by the exhibition of living infusoria and 

 other microscopical objects — Colonel Horslcy, Mr. T. B. Rosseter, 

 Mr. James Fullagar, and Mr. T. Hayward. 



Detailed reports of the proceedings and abstracts of the 

 papers, which have appeared in the " Canterbury Press," have 

 been transferred, for the information of Members, to the Society's 

 Scrap Book. 



THE LIBRARY. 



The sura at the disposal of the Librarian from the general 

 funds of the Society during the past year, was £6 12s. 7d. Of this 

 £1 Is. was spent in the purchase of a copy, in six parts, of the 

 Ray Society's Nudibranchiate Molluscs, by Alden and Hancock, 

 1845 to 18.54; of the remainder, for periodicals £4 7s., and for 

 binding 10 vols, of the previous year's periodicals, £1 4s. 7d. 



The low state of the Society's funds did not admit of any 

 further expenditure for new books. 



The undermentioned works have been received from the Ray 

 Society in return for the annual subscription of one guinea, viz : — 



A Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymcnoptera, by Peter 

 Cameron, 1 vol., royal octavo, 1882. 



A Monograph of British Spongiadae, by Bowcrbank, 8vo., 1882. 



