EAST KENT NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



EEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE FOR 1877. 



Tour Committee regret to have to state that the serious and 

 long protracted Ulness of the President as well as of the Honorary 

 Secretary and Honorary Assistant Secretary has delayed the 

 compilation of the Report for the past year. But the delay has 

 enabled your Committee to draw up a more detailed account of 

 the scientific proceedings than usual, as may be seen in the 

 following pages — thus the members will have a more perfect 

 retrospect of the scientific meetings than has been hitherto given. 

 A complete record of them is kept by the Honorary Assistant 

 Secretary (Mr. Fullagar) in a book, which is open to aU the 

 members. Notwithstanding some impediments the Society 

 maintains its ground. There are at the present time 93 members, 

 six of whom were added to the list during the year 1877. The 

 total expenditure during that year was £40 16s. 7d., inclusive of 

 £11 12s. 7d. paid to the Librarian, all of which is given in detail 

 in the fijiancial statement. The arrears of subscriptions at the 

 present time amount to £15 5s. The receipts from subscriptions 

 in the year 1877 were £29 5s. 6d., to which must be added £14 

 58., arrears of previous years, collected by the Honorary Treasurer 

 in that year, making a total of £43 10s. 6d., and leaving a 

 balance in favour of the Society on the 1st January, 1878, of 

 £2 138. lid. It is earnestly requested that those members who 

 axe stUl in arrears with theii- subscriptions will remit them to the 

 Treasurer at their earliest convenience, as the funds are at 

 present very low. 



Your Committee hope that the steps taken in the Society may 

 be of some use in preventing the extu'pation of rare plants and 

 animals, and in promoting the better management of provincial 

 museums. Both these points are receiving increased attention ; 

 and the latter wiU have more should Mr. MundeUa's motion 

 on the subject, of which notice has been given, be entertained 

 in the next Session of the House of Commons. 



The scientific transactions of the Society are in the present 

 Report BO extended that they may be left to tell their own t^e, 



