which has already recorded nearly all her important geological objects 

 in the National Collection, whilst Kent has contributed only seventeen. 

 He also earnestly advises the Society in conjunction with the Dover 

 Society to avoid the great danger that besets local Natural History 

 Societies in the development of Individualism which tends to hinder 

 their usefulness and ultimately leads to their extinction. He hopes that the 

 Societies wiil carry out reseaches on subjects of special character by com- 

 bined action through Sub-Committees and thus produce records of 

 National importance. 



The Annual Meeting of the Council of the Combined Societies was 

 held at the rooms of the East Kent Natural History Society, Canterbury, 

 on June 29th, 1892. The Council in their Report urged the Members 

 of the Societies to consider the importance of following out the particular 

 lines of reseach and observation laid down by the British Association 

 through the Delegate of the Societies, and hoped that in the future addi- 

 tional workers would be found to carry out the special investigations of 

 Sub-Committees. These are (i) the life history and disappearance of native 

 plants, (2) the invertebrate fauna and cryptogamic flora of the district, (3) 

 the photographing of important geological sections. 



The work of revising, rearranging and combining the specimens 

 included in the Dean and Reid Collections, was undertaken by Mr. 

 James Reid and has been continued throughout the year. The work is 

 being done so thoroughly that progress must necessarily be comparatively 

 slow, but when it is completed the Society will be in possassion of a very 

 valuable Herbarium. 



Eighty Six Orders have already been arranged and placed in four- 

 teen cases in two divisions : — 



(i) Specimens obtained in Kent, chiefly in East Kent. 



(2) Specimens obtained from other parts of Britain. 



Four Orders remain to be arranged, viz. : — Gramineae, Equisetacese, 

 Lycopodiacese, Filices. 



Conversazione : For some years past the Society has made no special 

 effort to bring itself to the notice of the public, but at the beginning of 

 this year several Members of the Committee undertook to promote a 

 Conversazione with the object of increasing the interest of the public in 

 the Society's work. — The Conversazione was held in May, in the Music 



