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The President, in moving that the report as read' be 

 adopted and that it be printed in the transactions of the Club, 

 said I have great pleasure in moving the adoption of the 

 report and feel that our Club may be congratulated that its 

 contents are of such a satisfactory nature. Our Club has 

 grown since the first meeting, now 12 years ago, at the house 

 of our valued friend Mr. Lee, from the then eight or ten to 

 upwards of 250, without counting the long list elected this 

 evening, and this has not been a rapid unstable growth, but a 

 steady one, and one we may hope to see maintained. Of 

 course, in such a Club as ours, we must expect fluctuations, 

 and lose, as time runs on, many useful members. During the 

 past year it has pleased the All Wise Being whose creation we 

 are and whose works we meet to study, to remove from us 

 two members by death, one of them being a man of great 

 gifts and knowledge. I allude to the late Prof. Rolleston, one 

 of our Hon. Members ; we have also lost 18 members bv 

 removal or resignation, but we have gained 26 new members 

 so that our numbers are now over 250. Our papers have this 

 year been of more than usual interest, nearly all of them 

 referring to local matters, and all of them by members of our 

 •own Club. The report of the IMeteoroIogical Sub-Committee 

 by Mr. Corden; and the papers on the same subject by Messrs. 

 Latham and Eaton, added much to our knowledge of local 

 meteorology, bringing before us as they did, not onh- the most 

 noteworthy events in our own neighbourhood, but also much 

 general information. The facts that all the papers have been 

 by our own members is a very encouraging one, showing the 

 great interest our members take in our Club, and we must 

 hope to see others come forward in the same manner during 

 the ensuing year. The members of our Geological Sub- 

 Committee have several times visited the workings of the 

 new railway now being made through Addiscombe, and I hope 

 we may have a report from them at a future meeting. Since 

 our last Annual Meeting we have secured the small room in 

 which the Committee Aleetings are held, for our exclusive use, 

 but at present our members make but little use of it ; however, 

 now that the winter has come, we hope to see it more used as 

 our members can meet there to compare notes and assist each 

 other. I would remind our members that on any occasion 

 when they wish to use the room they can have a fire by givin"- 

 a few hours' notice to Mr. Pusey. There is now before your 

 Committee the subject of the formation of a museum, but as 

 the arrangements with the Directors of the Public Hall and 

 others are not j-et completed it would be premature to enter 

 into particulars at the present time. Our balance-sheet, which 

 is to-night before you, shows a very promising result, althou^-h 



