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The remaining 87 meetings were occupied with the ordinary busi- 
ness of the Society. Two excursions were made in the course of the 
year, one to New Mills, in Derbyshire, on which occasion the members 
were entertained by Mr. S. H. Alcock; the other was to Ringley and 
its neighbourhood. 
During the year a library was formed of 26 volumes, The Society 
also joined the Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cheshire Amalgamated 
Natural History Society, which holds its meetings quarterly in the 
different towns connected with it in rotation. 
1870. 
This year 42 members were on the books at its commencement, 
and at its conclusion 45, being an increase of 3. Forty-nine meetings 
were held, with an average attendance of 10 members. At three of 
these the following papers were read :— 
‘The natural history of water,” by Mr. R. H. Alcock. 
‘The physical geography and natural history of Kinder, in Derby- 
shire,”’ read by Dr. Bott, contributed by Mr. R. H. Alcock. 
**A second lecture on Butterflies and Moths,” by the Rey. J. T. 
Whitehead. 
Thirty-eight evenings were occupied by the business of ordinary 
meetings, and the remaining eight by microscopical investigation, 
under the presidency of Mr. Samuel Horrocks and Dr. Bott. ; 
Excursions were made to the following places:—Mere Clough, 
Simpson Clough, Hudear (for the purpose of dragging a reservoir), 
Springside, Deeply Vale and Grant’s Tower, and the cloughs near 
Ringley Road station. ; 
In the course of the year an additional cabinet to hold the Society’s 
specimens was obtained, at a cost of £5 10s., which was defrayed by 
the subscriptions of the members and a few friends. The Society is 
indebted to several of its members and friends for gifts of specimens 
this year. The library has increased from 26 to 81 volumes, and the 
following periodicals are now taken in ;—‘“‘ Nature,” ‘ Hardwick’s 
Science Gossip,” ‘‘ Newman’s Entomology.” 
1871. 
This year there has been a decrease of five in the number of mem- 
bers, leaving 40 upon the roll. Forty-nine meetings have been held. 
The largest attendance at an ordinary meeting has been 18, the 
smallest 38. On an average there has been an attendance of 9 
at each meeting, against 10 last year. Twenty-nine of the 41 
members have made an average attendance of 16, the remaining 
12 being honorary members. The Society having come to the 
conclusion that weekly meetings are too frequent, has decided to hold 
them in future twice a month, viz., on the first and third Tuesdays. 
Lectures were delivered on— 
