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incurred heavy penalties. He should like to hear an expression of 
opinion from the Club as to the desirability of purchasing a few 
books of reference with the funds they would have to spare after | 
defraying the expenses of the lecture. According to the report, it 
would appear that there had been an average attendance of thirty at : 
each meeting during the year. This result had been arrived at by : 
.examining the attendance book, but he believed that the return . 
from that source did not indicate the actual attendance, in conse- | 
quence of some gentlemen having neglected to inscribe their names . 
in that book. He therefore hoped, for the honour of the Club, 
that in future members would be careful to sign their names. He 
also suggested that every gentleman who exhibited a microscope at 
their meetings should not only inscribe his name on the ticket, but 
also the name of the object exhibited. The summer excursions did 
not appear to have been a source of much attraction hitherto, 
notwithstanding that the Committee had endeavoured to make them 
more attractive. The President also expressed a hope that the 
Club would turn their attention to the Flora and Fauna of 
the neighbourhood, which afforded abundant scope for pleasant 
occupation. 
Suggestions were then made by Dr. AnpERson and Dr. Srrone * 
that the library should be strengthened by the purchase of a few 
works of reference, and that steps should be taken to bring the 
library more prominently before the members. It was thought that 
a few standard works on Botany, Geology, &c., would be a useful 
addition. to the library, and the President said that the subject 
should receive the Committee’s attention. 
Dr. Carpenter said he should like to support the President’s 
suggestion with regard to a more complete cultivation of the Flora 
and Fauna of this district. If anyone who possessed a microscope 
would take a subject, however small and unimportant, and work it 
out thoroughly, the Club would be enabled to investigate many 
objects in detail, and derive full and complete information respecting 
them. For instance, he saw the other day that a Frenchman had 
made the subject of chalk his study, and had published drawings 
showing that there were more than 800 varieties of form in carbonate 
of lime. This result had been attained by working out the subject 
to its fullest extent ; and he was certain that there was abundance 
