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have so strained the limited finances of the Society that it will 

 become necessary to diminish them, and perhaps to bring them 

 into some alternating relation with those of the Dover Society, 

 with which this Society is now affiliated The permanent 

 results and records of these excursions beyond the photographs 

 mentioned, and one full list of the plants met with, have been 

 unsatisfactory. 



Mr. A. S. Eeid, M.A., F.G.S., again represented the 

 Society at the meeting of the British Association, held at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne, and sent an interesting and suggestive 

 report of the proceedings at the meeting of the Committee 

 of the Corresponding Natural History Societies. The report 

 was read at the October meeting at the opening of the Session, 

 and your Committee have since organized sub- Committees for 

 systematic local investigation on the subjects he pointed out as 

 probably most suitable, namely : — Variation of tempera- 

 tures in rivers, &c. ; photography of geological sections ; coast 

 erosion ; observation of native flora, including life history, 

 disappearance or establishment of species ; invertebrate fauna 

 and flora of fresh water ponds, lakes, rivers, &c. Any facts 

 and well ascertained observations on these subjects will be very 

 acceptable to the sub-Committees, if members and their friends 

 will kindly send them to the Hon. Secretary of the Society, 

 who will forward them to the special sub- Committee. The 

 Dover Society imder the adopted plan of affiliation will con- 

 jointly and concurrently carry out the same iuvestigations 



Under the plan of affiliation notified in the last report of 

 your Committee, a Council was formed and met for the first 

 time in September last, after the Summer Session was coir-pleted. 

 The Council consists of six members ; the representatives of the 

 East Kent Natural History Society are : — Col. Horsley, E.E. ; 

 Mr. W. P. Mann, B.A. ; Mr. J. Eeid, F.E.C.S., Eng. The 

 representatives of the Dover Natural History Field Club 

 are : — Mr. Sidney Webb, Capt. McDakin, Mr. Edward 

 Horsnaill. 



Capt. McDakin was appointed Chairman, and Mr. J. Eeid 

 Hon. Secretary, pro tern. There will be a yearly meeting of 

 the Council at the end of March for general business, and an 

 Annual Meeting of the Conjoint Societies in the early summer, 

 when an excursion will form part of the proceedings. The 

 publication of the affiliated Societies will be called the South 

 Eastern Naturalist, and will be published in June if the 

 transactions give sufficient material. Under this arrangement 

 the double number of the transactions of the Society published 



