ADDRESS 



DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEMBERS 



OF THE 



WEST KENT NATURAL HISTORY, MICROSCOPICAL, 

 AND PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, 



BY 



The President, W. G. LEMON, Esq., B.A., LL.B., F.O.S., 



ON THE 22N-D FEBRUARY, 1882. 



Gentlemen, 



The Council, in accordance with the wishes of the Members, 

 have arranged for the publication of an abstract, more or less 

 full, of the papers read at our ordinary Meetings. This, taken in 

 conjunction with the report already presented to you, leaves little 

 to be said by me on the work of the Society during the past year. 

 Every one who has attended our Meetings must have noticed 

 that many valuable remarks were made in the course of the 

 discussions which followed the several papers ; and also that, on 

 numerous occasions, facts and personal observations of more than 

 local scientific interest were communicated in the conversation 

 which preceded the reading of papers. These are deserving of a 

 permanent record, and possibly during the current year some 

 means may be devised for preserving them in a form accessible 

 to the Members. 



The Report of the Council refers to the loss sustained by the 

 Society in the death of Mr. Frederick Currey, M.A., F.R.S. Of 

 late years he had not been able to mingle so much with us as in 

 the early days of the Society. I can well remember how, more 

 than 20 years ago, when the Greenwich Natural History Club 

 amalgamated with this Society, Mr. Currey, who had occasionally 

 attended our Meetings previously, became, with the late Mr. J. 

 Flint South and others, regular attendants ; and from the fulness 

 of his botanical knowledge, and his readiness to impart the results 

 of personal investigations, he added greatly to the pleasure of our 

 evenings. Mr. Currey was a master of cryptogamic botany, and 

 his death will be felt as a great loss in this special department of 

 science. 



You will all join me in congratulating our esteemed ex- 

 President, Mr. R. McLachlan, F.R.S., on the publication of 



