ADDRESS 



DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEMBERS 



OF THE 



WEST KENT NATURAL HISTORY, 

 MICROSCOPICAL, & PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, 



BY 



The President, Rev. ANDREW JOHNSON, M.A., F.L.S., 



On the 24/// March, 1886. 



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Gentlemen, 



I very much regret that I was not able to be present at 

 your Annual Meeting in February, for I fear that the 

 Presidential Address now delivered a month after date must 

 appear somewhat stale. The Report of the Council has 

 already been presented to you and furnishes full information 

 as to the present position of your Society. 



The past year has not proved very eventful. Our 

 monthly gatherings have presented fewer blanks than usual, 

 there having been a fair supply of Papers read, some of which 

 have possessed very considerable importance and interest. 

 These Papers or abstracts thereof, will of course be published 

 with our Report. I heartily wish that it were possible to pre- 

 serve some record of the discussions which followed ; some of 

 the remarks made from time to time possessing a value 

 almost, if not quite, equal to that of the original Papers 

 themselves. 



The Conversazione has been described as a great 

 success ; a result which was due to the liberality of the 

 Exhibitors and to the zeal and energy of the Sub- 

 Committee. 



