PEEPACE. 



In issuing the Fourth Part of our Transactions, we are glad to 

 be able to say that our Society continues to prosper. In the 

 summer and autumn terms of last year there was a falling off in 

 the attendance at the meetings, but this term the meetings have 

 been crowded almost to excess. We still, however, like most 

 school societies, have to deplore the want of real workers at 

 Natural History. Except in Geology, very little has been done. 

 This, however, is partly due to the fact that no one had been 

 appointed to the post of Natural History Master, in the place of 

 Mr Barrington-Ward. As this vacancy has now been filled, we 

 hope to see a revival of interest in Botany. 



The thanks of the Society are due to many friends who have 

 helped us in various ways. To Mr W, W. Stoddart we are indebted 

 for a most interesting lecture on spiders. Amongst the many 

 donors of specimens to our College Museum we must specially 

 mention the following : — Eev. J. Greene, J. G. Grenfell, Esq., J. A. 

 Gibbons, C. H. Firth, E. W. Carus- Wilson, A. Cole-Hamilton. 



