EAST KENT NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



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REPORT Of THE COMMITTEE FOR 1879. 



The weather during the jiast year was not favourable to 

 excursions in the country or to the coast in search of botanical 

 or zoological spocimens, and in conseq^uence no general excur- 

 sions were undertaken, with the exception of one to Whitstable 

 in November, at the invitation of Mr. Sibert Saunders, in con- 

 nection with the Whitstable Institute, which was well attended 

 and proved a great success. Several objects of interest obtained 

 on the "Street" at low water, and by dredging off the coast, 

 were exhibited and exjilained by the members present. But 

 though out-door excursions were rare, in-door work was by no 

 means wanting, as the various interesting and instructive 

 papers, which will be printed in extemo with this Eoport, will 

 testify. And here your Committee would wish especially to 

 record their thanks to Captain McDakin for his valuable papers 

 on the Geology of East Kent, read at the successive monthlj' 

 meetings of the Society in Canterbury ; also to Mr. Sibert 

 Saunders, to the Hon. Secretary, G. Gulliver, Esq., F.R.S., to 

 Mr. Fullagar, and to G. S. Saunders, Esq., for their respective 

 communications on subjects connected with Natural Hi.story. It 

 is papers of the kind here referred to, illustrated as they usually 

 are by specimens under powerful microscopes, that tend to keep 

 lip the interest of the Members and draw others to the Society. 

 During the past year livo now members have been elected, and 



