your Committee have decided on inserting it in the Report, as the 

 most convenient way of answering such applications ; and this 

 the more willingly, as it seems creditable for the Society to 

 take a lead in the reform of Museums which, though supported 

 by the local rates, have not yet been made faii-ly subservient, 

 as they ought and were intended to be, to the interests of 

 education. 



In the course of their labours to promote the activity and 

 usefulness of the Society, your Committee have found some of the 

 Rixles which, strictly intei'preted, obstruct or interfere with the 

 business. The proposed alterations are chiefly of a mere formal 

 character, and are recommended, after much consideration, to be 

 adopted, as they will much facilitate the bxisiness, especially in 

 giving precision to the times of the meetings, whether Scientific, 

 General, or of Committees. Thus it is hoped to solve the questions, 

 hitherto so perpetually recun-ing, on these matters plainly for every 

 member who may look at the standing Rules, and to obviate the 

 necessity of the issues of such special notices of information as 

 the members may reasonably require to possess already in those 

 ilules, concerning all the ordinary meetings and other business 

 of the Society. And, for the further convenience of the members, 

 it is proposed to notice distinctly on a fly-leaf of the Report 

 all the fixed meetings, so that it may be torn out and stuck up as a 

 remembrancer. ^ 



riually, your Committee, recognising the expediency of co- 

 operation with other and kindred Societies, have agreed to mutual 

 visiting privileges as to meetings and excursions, and to the inter- 

 change of Annual Reports, with the Croydon Microscopical Club, 

 and the Eastbourne N'atural History Society ; and will be happy to 

 consider the question of extending the arrangement, whenever 

 desired, to other Societies. 



Sub-Committee on the Flora of East Eent. 



The work of this Committee has been unfortunately suspended 

 during the past year owing to the causes mentioned in the last 

 Repoi-t. The analysis and registry of the returns made by members 

 during 1870 have proved too much for the time at the disposal of 

 the Secretary of this Committee. Indeed, the Secretary found it 

 necessary to resign office last July, promising to complete the 

 register as soon as he could. The plan adopted is one that may 

 easUy be resumed, it only requires some one with a little spare time 

 and a knowledge of Botany, to volunteer to carry it out. A balance 

 of 4s. 8d. remains to the Committee from the grant made in 1870. 



