XV. 
In the early part of the Session an effort was made to organize 
a summer programme, jointly with the Trustees and Curators of 
the Museum, and thus promote among the members of the Society 
and others, a taste for the study of Natural Science. One long 
day excursion and a series of short half-day excursions were 
arranged for the purpose of studying and collecting specimens 
representing the Geology, Botany, and Entomology of the district, 
but the effort was not successful. 
The number of members now on the books is one hundred and 
fifty-five, as compared with one hundred and ninety-two recorded 
at the end of last Session. 
THe Museum.—The Curators have to report that during the 
past year 1,041 visitors paid for admission to the Museum. 
Amongst those who visited the Museum last summer were 
Professor Hughes, of Cambridge, and thirty of his students. 
Owing to the defective structure of the cases in which the 
Entomological portion of the collection was placed, the colours of 
many of the specimens were almost destroyed, but Mr. Bedale came 
forward and offered, not only to prepare new and suitable cases, from 
which the light should be excluded, but also to replace the damaged 
specimens and add a number that had not previously been in the 
collection. 
Three specimens of wild Water-fowl have been added to the 
Ornithological section of the collection since last Annual Meeting ; 
also a primitive Theodolite, a Barometer, and a Blow Pipe. 
