REPORT 



Your Council have to report that the number of Members 

 of the Society has been fully maintained. 



In compliance with the resolution passed at the Monthly 

 Meeting in April last, the Council have presented the herbarium 

 and other objects to the Maidstone Museum, which has acknow- 

 ledged their reception with thanks. 



With a view to meet the wishes of several members of the 

 Society, your Council suggest that in future some of the 

 ordinary meetings be held in the small room of the Hall, for 

 the reading of technical and local papers, and the exhibition 

 of objects of scientific or special interest, and that at the other 

 meetings, popular lectures by professional or other lecturers be 

 given. They also propose that the benefits of the Society be 

 extended to the public, by admitting them to these lectures at 

 a small fee. 



The following meetings have been held during the year : — • 

 1882. 



Feb. 21. Fourth Annual Meeting, at which there was an exhi- 

 bition of scientific and other objects. 



Mar. 21. Lecture on " Planets, their past and future," by 

 Mr. G. S. Waters, F.R.A.S. 



April 18. Notes on the History of the River Darent, by 

 Mr. F. C. J. Spurrell. 



Note on recent discoveries at Northend, Erith, by 

 Mr. H. W. Smith. 



June 10. By permission of Lord Darnley, the Society visited 

 Cobham Hall and inspected the pictures ; also 

 the parish church, over which they were conducted 

 by the vicar, Rev. A. H. Berger, who pointed out 

 the features of interest in the Priests' Chantry 

 adjoining. 



