cxlvi. Proceedings, 



Club the appointment of Auditors in conformity with the rules 

 had been omitted, but that the committee had requested Mr. 

 A. A. Campbell and Mr. John Drage to audit the accounts. 

 He now asked the Club to confirm the action of the Committee 

 in this matter. The meeting thereupon confirmed the action 

 of the Committee accordingly. 



The minutes of the last meeting were then read and signed. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for, and duly elected 

 members of the Club: — The Rev. J. M. Braithwaite, M.A., 

 Thomas N. Trew, M.D., John Henry Drage, Alfred L. Sly, 

 John Noble, Wm. Webb, junr., H. H. French, Ferdinand 

 Falk, James Henry Morgan, F.S.S., and Louis de Clercq. 



The following donations were announced : — Journal of the 

 Royal Micro. Socy. for December ; Proceedings of the Ber- 

 wickshire Naturalists' Club ; " Science Gossip " for January ; 

 Paper read by Mr. Lovett before the Royal Microscopical 

 Society, loth October, 1883, on an improved method of pre- 

 paring Embryological and other delicate Organisms for 

 Microscopical Examination ; a Paper on the Flora of South 

 Lincolnshire, by W. H. Beeby, reprinted from the "Journal 

 of Botany," for January, 1884. 



The Report for the year, and the annual balance sheet were 

 read by the Hon. Secretary. 



The Report of the Geological Sub-Committee was read by 

 Mr. Henry Turner, and the report of the Botanical Sub- 

 Committee by Mr. H. T. Mennell. The Report of the Ento- 

 mological Section of the Zoological Sub-Committee was 

 submitted by Mr. Lovett. 



REPOxiT. 



Your Committee have the pleasure of submitting to you their 

 Fourteenth Annual Report. 



During the past year twenty new members have been elected ; 

 thirty-two members have withdrawn. Your Committee regret 

 to have to add that the following members have died since the date 

 of the last Annual Meeting, viz. : — Mr. C. W. Bonus, Dr. Foottit, 

 Mr. Robert Hudson, F.R.S.. Mr. Michael Pope, Mr. H. T. Smith, 

 and Mr. Edwin Williams. The resignations during the past year 

 have been more numerous than usual. This is due chiefly to 

 removals from the neighbourhood. The number of new members, 

 on the other hand, has been below the average, but your Committee 

 trust that in the ensuing }-ear the loss will be more than made up. 



The total number of members on the 31st December last was 238 

 ordinary members, 4 honorary members, and i associate. 



The followmg Papers have been read during the year : — 



14//; February. — Mr. Edward Lovett, " Report of the Entomo- 

 logical Section of the Zoological Sub-Committee." 



14^/; March. — Rev. George Bailey, M.A., "Notes on Parasites on 



