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satisfactory condition than could be desired. A reference 
to the list of Subscribers will show that only a few of the 
rich and influential people in the County belong to the 
Society, and if the Members would solicit Annual Sub- 
scriptions from their friends and neighbours, it is probable 
that a considerable addition would be made to the funds 
of the Society before the end of the present year. 
The Council have much pleasure in stating that the 
upper room has now been enlarged and otherwise im- 
proved, giving thereby increased accommodation for speci- 
mens, so much needed, and will enable them to make 
many additions and important alterations which the 
crowded state of the rooms rendered essential. Mr. 
Dickenson has been good enough to arrange the Arche- 
ological Collection now removed up stairs. The mammalia 
have been placed in proper order by Mr. Tomes, and 
several important additions have been made to them 
during the past year. 
The Warwickshire Naturalists’ and Archeologists’ Field 
Club held their annual Winter Meeting (by the kind per- 
mission of the Council of the Warwickshire Natural History 
Society) in the Museum, Warwick, on Monday, February 
the 8th, 1864. P. Wykeham Martin, Esq., M.P., the 
President, took the chair, and read the usual annual 
Address. 
The Rev. G. Henslow then proceeded to deliver a lecture 
on ‘Botanical Geography, with special reference to the 
distribution of the British Flora.” 
On Tuesday, May 24th, the Warwickshire Naturalists’ 
and Archxologists’ Field Club held their first meeting for 
