We had anticipated a very considerable portion of this Report would 

 have to be devoted to a record of the visit of the Members of the British 

 Association to Burton, but in consequence of the various attractions 

 provided elsewhere, few members entered their names for this Excursion, 

 which therefore turned out a comparative failure. We must, however, 

 put on record the following details. 



Your Committee being asked by the Corporation to nominate six 

 representatives to act with Mr. Grinling and the Estates and Genera 

 Purposes Committee, as a Committee of Reception, elected Messrs. I 

 T. Harris, P. B. Mason, C. Perks, C. O'Sullivan, H. T. Brown, and 

 F. E. Loit. Messrs. J. T. Harris and T. C. Martin acting as Hon. Sees. 

 to the Reception Committee. As you all know, owing to the small 

 number of British Association Members accepting the invitation of the 

 Town of Burton, the Public Reception, fully arranged for, was abandoned; 

 the remainder of the programme was, however, carried out as originally 

 arranged. 



About thirty visitors arrived, and were duly initiated in the staple 

 trade of the town by able representatives from Messrs Bass and AUsopp. 



After Luncheon, at which our Vice Presidents — the Revd. C. F. 

 Thornewill and Mr. C. O'Sullivan, F.R.S., took respectively the Chair 

 and Vice Chair — the greater number of those present visited Tutbury and 

 RoUeston, under the able guidance of Mr. T. Knowles, M.A. The few 

 who remained visited the various points of local interest, including some 

 of the valuable private Entomological and Ornithological collections, 

 under the leaderships of the Revd. C. F. Thornewill, Messrs. Harris and 

 Lott. We therefore take this opportunity of thanking those gentlemen 

 who so ably represented our Society. 



Mr. Horace T. Brown, who acted as your Delegate to the British 

 Association Meeting at Birmingham, will give a brief report on the 

 work of the corresponding Societies' Committee, and we feel sure you 

 will wish him to again act as your delegate, should we have the honour 

 to be selected as a corresponding Society this year. 



We have received no addition to the Society's collection since those 

 referred to in the last report. 



Mr. J. T. Harris, the Hon. Treasurer, then read the Balance Sheet, 

 which showed that at the commencement of the year the Society had 

 jC^3 3s- lod. to its credit; the amount received by subscriptions reached 

 a total of;^45 3s. lod., and there was a balance in hand of ^27 3s. 6d. 



