REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE SESSION, 1881-82. 



The Council are pleased at the termination of another year 

 to be able to congi-atulate the Society on its stability and continued 

 prosperity. The list of ^Members has been carefully revised, and 

 the names of those who, owing to removal from the neighbourhood 

 or other causes, had practically ceased to be Members have been 

 erased. The number at present on the register is 107, of whom 

 6 are Honorary Members. 



During the past year, one Member only has been removed 

 by death, but this was one who could be ill spared. F. Currey, 

 Escj., M.A., F.R.S., &c., who to the great grief of a large circle of 

 i'riends, died after a brief iUness, in August, 1881. His general 

 scientific attainments, and the high rank he held amongst botanists 

 — especially in regard to his knowledge of Fungi — are too weE 

 known to require comment. He had been connected with this 

 Society from its earliest days, and had filled the offices of 

 President, Vice-President and Member of CoimcU. He always 

 manifested a \\arm interest in the Society's prosperity, and was 

 ever ready in the kindest manner to give information on any 

 subject with which he was familiar, and without hesitation to 

 place at the disposal of the humblest scientific enquirer amongst 

 us, the stores of knowledge which years of patient industry, and 

 his naturally acute powers and retentive memory, had enabled 

 him to amass. One of his last acts for the Society was, on 

 November 24th, 1880, to read a Paper on " Some Useful and 

 Noxious Fungi," which will be found printed in our last Report. 



The Accounts of the Honorary Treasurer have been duly 

 audited, and shew a balance in hand of £1 18s. 5d. The sum 

 received during the past year for subscriijtious was £55 13s. Od. 



At the commencement of the Session, it was determined by 

 the Society that papers read at the Meetings, or abstracts thereof, 

 should so iar as practicable be published with the Annual Report. 

 In pm-suance of such determination, there will be published this 



