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valued member whose failing health obliged him to seek a more 

 genial climate in Australia. The following Reports and Tran- 

 sactions of various Natural History Societies have also been 

 received during the year, viz. : — 



" Report of Botanical Record Club." 



"Annual Report of Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society. 



" Transactions of the Eastbourne Natural History Society." 



" Transactions of the Edinburgh Botanical Society." 



A proposal to entrust the Club's Library to the care of the 

 Library Committee of the Corporation as part of the Reference 

 Library has been favourably received, and if carried out will 

 enable the members to borrow the books of the Club at any hour 

 of the day as freely as any part of the Corporation Lending 

 Library, while the Club will be relieved of the duty of the custody 

 and issue of the books. 



Besides the excursions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Uiaion, 

 which have been very well attended by members of the Leeds 

 Naturalists' Club, there have been excursions to Pateley Bridge 

 on May 16th, to Adel Bog on October 10th, and to Mr. Ruskin's 

 Museum at Sheffield on October 24th. This last excursion was 

 much appreciated by the large number of members (over 40) who 

 took part in it, and will long be remembered for the exceptional 

 interest of the exhibition, and for the kindly manner in which the 

 members were received by the Curator (Mr. Henry Swann) and 

 his family. The Club also had the advantage of the presence of 

 Dr. Clifton Sorby, F.R.S., who took considerable pains in describing 

 the various objects of interest. The Museum was again reverted 

 to at the following monthly meeting of the Club, wlien Mr. 

 Washington Teasdale gave an interesting address on the " True 

 Spirit of the Ruskin Museum," and read extracts from Mr. 

 Ruskin's works. 



As usual the new year was inaugurated by a social gathering, 

 held in Powolny's Rooms on January 31st, when the President 

 gave an opening address, and a testimonial was presented to the 

 late Hon. Secretary, Mr. H. Pollard, as an expression of the 

 Club's appreciation of his services during the previous four years. 



It is proposed to commence the session of 1886, and inaugurate 



the opening of the new room, by a conversazione, in which it is 



hoped that several other Societies, botli in Leeds and the County, 



will take part. 



H. BENDELACK HEWETSON, 



December llth, 1885. President. 



