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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 

 1874. 



In compliance with tbe eighth rule of the Society's regulations, 

 your Committee has now to give its Annual Report and Statement 

 of Accounts for the past year ; and iu so doing is happy to say that 

 the Society continues prosperous, losing nothing of its interest and 

 usefulness. 



The number of members at the end of the year 1873 was 97 ; 

 during that year three died and six retired, while six new members 

 joined, thus making the present total number 9i. But though 

 there thus appears a loss of three, this is more apparent than real, 

 for there are now more paying members than ever, and the pecuniary 

 balance to the credit of the Society, though a larger amount than 

 before has been expended on the Library, is much greater than it 

 was at the end of the preceding year. On the last day of that 

 year, 1873, the balance in favour of the Society was £i 10s. 3d., 

 and at the corresponding period of 187-i, £16 Is. 2d. Of the £15 

 voted for the Library during the year just passed, a sum of £6 38. 3d. 

 has been spent in the purchase of new books, and £8 16s. Id. in 

 periodicals and binding 20 volumes, leaving 3s. 5d. in the hands of 

 the Librarian. Additional apparatus for the Society's microscope 

 has been procured from Messrs. Beck and Co., at a cost of £5 10s. 

 The details of aU this expenditure will be found in the Report of 

 the Librarian. 



Your Committee congratulates the Society on the steady increase 

 of its capital in the Librai-y, especially as it is the only collection of 

 Buch books iu this district, and they are eminently important for the 

 use of the members. The microscope and its apparatus are also an 

 addition to the stock of the Society, which has proved highly useful 

 at the evening meeting and other times ; and the Committee has 

 again the pleasing duty of thanking Colonel Horsley, Mr. Sidney 

 Harvey, and Mr. FuUagar, for the use of their instruments at those 

 meetings. 



Minutes of the proceedings have been kept, according to Rule 

 15, and may be seen by the members iu the book under the caie of 

 Mr. Fullagar; the Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings being 

 pi'eserved from the Kentish Guzette, iu whii.'h they are' regularly 

 reported with a care and accuracy very creditable to the local press. 

 Only brief abstracts of these I'eports will be ai^pended to the 

 present Annual Report, as the originals are alwa^-s ready for refer- 

 ence in the before-mentioned book, and the most novel and impor- 



