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These Excursions Avere rendered all the more successful and 

 pleasant by being carefully planned and by the selection of 

 leaders ; and the Committee would be pleased to receive sugges- 

 tions from Members for the Excoi'sions of next summer. 



The Committee Meetings have been held very regularly 

 and the affairs of the Society have been carefully attended to. 

 An effort has been made, and with considerable success, to induce 

 Members to give papers and communicate the results of their 

 investigations, and the monthlj' meetings have never been 

 lacking in interest. 



An effort was made in the early part of the year to 

 associate Avith the Committee of the University Extension 

 Lectures in the hope that some Scientific Lectm-es might be 

 organised ; but the effort was not successful as the feeling of the 

 University Committee seemed to tend more towards Literary 

 Subjects. 



The Committee regret that the number of members 

 attending the monthly meetings is often \ery small. It cannot 

 but be discouraging to the Lecturer, after having spent a long 

 time in investigation, and much trouble in putting his informa- 

 tion into form, to find that such a small number of members 

 come to the meeting to hear him. Not only has a card been 

 issued giving the titles and particulars of the papers for the 

 Session, but the Secretary always issues notices a few days 

 before each meeting and therefore the poor attendance is not 

 caused by any misapprehension of the times when papers are 

 read. 



In the last report it was mentioned that another Series of 

 Transactions would probably be issued during the year. This 

 2nd series "n'as published in May and a copy was forwarded to 

 each member. The expenses of jjublication were defraj-ed out 

 of the general funds of the Society. The publishing Com- 

 mittee are wishful to bring out another series as soon as 

 possible, and they are anxious that these publications should be 

 the means of gathering and preserving valuable information 

 concerning the Natural History of East Kent. They would 

 therefore be pleased if members would freely communicate any 

 observations, if not in full papers at any rate in the form of notes 



