Proceedings. XVil. 
The PREsIDENT, in moving the adoption of the report, said 
it was on the whole a very satisfactory one. The Club, during 
the year, had lost nothing of its prestige; the number of 
members had been augmented, and the financial year termi- 
nated witha balance in its favour. Papers of intrinsic worth 
had been read, and although the work done in microscopical 
research, he believed, was not so great as in some of the 
previous years, there was an undercurrent of work in some of 
their members which would bring its reward hereafter. The 
balance at the end of the year was not so large as that at the 
commencement, and this was to be accounted for by the 
bringing up of arrears in the printing of the annual records of 
the proceedings. Two of these had been printed during the 
past year, and there now remained only one of the earlier years 
to becompleted. In consequence of this additional expenditure 
it had been thought desirable that the annual lecture, which 
had hitherto been given, should for the present be discontinued. 
There had also been a large expenditure connected with the 
soiree, but when they considered the amount of pleasure that 
was afforded to the large number of visitors, and the interest 
they manifested in examining the varied objects exhibited, he 
thought the money spent had been well invested. As this 
would be the last occasion on which, as their President, he 
should have the pleasure of addressing them, he would take 
this opportunity of acknowledging the kindness and support he 
had invariably received from the committee, who although 
they sometimes very properly differed in opinion, worked 
amicably together for the common interests of the Club ; and 
he should look back to those committee meetings with a con- 
siderable amount of pleasure. He moved that the report and 
accounts be received and adopted, and that they be printed and 
circulated amongst the members. 
Mr. J. FLower, in seconding this motion, referred to the 
recommendation of the committee that additional sub-com- 
mittees should be appointed, and cordially endorsed that 
recommendation. In the earlier stages of its existence the 
work of the Club was chiefly microscopical, but latterly the 
Natural History element had been developed, and he thought 
it very desirable that this part of the work of the Club should 
be organised and put into a more systematic form ; this could 
best be done by the appointment of sub-committees, whose 
particular duty it would be to develope the work of the Club 
each in its own department. In 1877, a botanical sub-com- 
mittee was formed to work the district, and the experiment had 
been so successful that he thought they might follow it up by 
appointing three more sub-committees in other branches—-such 
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