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The Leeds HMaturalists’ Club and Scientific Association, 
THE 
EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE COUNCIL: 
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, HELD 
ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH, 1878. 
In presenting their 8th Annual Report the Council have to state 
that during the year progress has been made, as evidenced by the 
increase in the number of members and in the attendance at the 
meetings, the state of the Library and of the Local Collections. 
Large numbers of interesting specimens have been exhibited in 
various branches of Natural History; but on the other hand the 
Council desire to point out that although the Society is a Scientific 
Association as well as a Naturalists’ Club, very little has been seen 
or heard of the physical and other sciences, concerning which, 
nevertheless, some of the members are highly qualified to treat. 
Another source of dissatisfaction is the difficulty which is now 
experienced in obtaining papers to be read on the lecture evenings. 
This induces the Council to point out how desirable it is that 
in the future the Society should be strengthened by the occasional 
attendance at and participation in the work of the meetings by the 
older and more experienced members, who have for the most part 
been conspicuous by their abstention from the Society’s work 
during the past year. The younger race of members, into whose 
hands the whole work of the Society will inevitably fall, lack the 
experience which they will acquire with time, and still more do 
they feel the want of the inestimable benefits which would accrue 
to them from personal intercourse with the older and more experi- 
enced members. 
Within the last few months a spontaneous effort among the 
members for the improvement of the Society’s work, has resulted 
in the formation or proposed formation of various Sections, and 
the Cou.cu uupe that the extension of the system will be produc- 
tive of good results and tend to the more detailed investigation of 
the various branches of Science, 
