NATUKAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



The Annual Meeting was held at the Society's Eooms, 6^ 

 High Street, Canterbury, on Tuesday, January 31st, 1888, Mr. 

 Sidney Harvey in the chair, when the following Report was 

 presented. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE FOR 1887. 



Though in presenting the Thirtieth Annual Report the 

 Committee would have been pleased to be able to congratulate 

 the Society on a large increase of members, on a much greater 

 interest in the proceedings, on a larger number of papers, and 

 on the communication of more original work, they still feel that 

 the year has, on the whole, been a successful one, and that the 

 position of the Society has been maintained. 



The Papers read during the year were — 



February 10, On Trichodina as an Endoparasite, Mr. T. B. Eosseter, 



F.E.M.S. ; Oq the recent fall of rock in the Niagara Falls, com- 



niuuicated by Mr. James Reid. 

 March 10, On Insectivorous Plants, Mr. G. Dowker, F.G.S. 

 April 14, Woodlice, Centipedes and Snake Millipedes, Mr. G. S. 



Saunders ; The Life History of a Wild Carrot, Mr. James Beid. 

 October 13, On Falcaria Riviri, Mr. Geo. Dowker. 

 November 10, The Development of the Ear in Animals, Mr. James Reid. 

 December 8, On the probability of finding Coal in East Kent, Mr. G. 



Dowker, F.G.S. 



EXHIBITS. 



February 10, Horn of white rhinoceros found at Ramsgate in a deposit 

 of Romano-British date, Mr. HiLLlER ; Diagrams showing changes 

 in Niagra Falls during the last 200 years, Mr. James Reid ; 

 Foraminifera from Broadstairs, Col. Horsley. 



