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The Leeds Maturalists’ Club and Scientific Association. 
THE 
SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE COUNCIL: 
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, HELD 
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27th, 1877. 
: The Council in presenting the 7th Annual Report of the state 
of the Society’s affairs, have pleasure in congratulating the members 
on the fact that in nearly every respect the year just closed has 
been the most successful one the Society has enjoyed since the 
date of its formation. There have not been such fluctuations in 
the interest of and attendance at the meetings, as have been men- 
tioned in previous reports, but on the contrary, the proceedings 
have been marked throughout by steady and evenly-maintained 
improvement. 
As suggested in the last Report, the influence upon this Society 
; of the Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures—though 
prejudicial to the actual attendance of the year in which the Exhi- 
bition was held—has been, upon the whole, of a beneficial nature, 
and the year just closed has shown by the improvement reported 
that the opinion of the former Council was justified. 
MEMBERS. 
_ The year commenced with a list of 105 members, the same num- 
ber with which the previous year had commenced. 
At the beginning of the year the Council took into consideration 
_ the advisability of largely increasing the membership; they felt that 
a considerable number of persons in Leeds, being interested in the 
objects of the Society, only needed that its claims should be placed 
before them in order to induce them at once to support it by en- 
tolling their names. The result has been what was anticipated by - 
_ the Council, and as the consequence of their action, aided by that 
_ Of individual members, sixty names have been added to the roll by 
