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an important new work on slugs is now in course of com- 

 pilation by the Conchological Society, and this society is 

 particularly anxious for records. I shall be glad if members 

 will bear this in mind, and give notice not only of those 

 specimens found in our own neighbourhood, but also of those 

 found in other parts of England. 



Mr. Beeby, F.R.M.S., &c., a member of our Club, has been 

 very successful in finding botanical specimens. It appears that 

 six new plants have been added to the Surrey list ; this ought 

 to encourage our botanical members, and we may hope that 

 by our next annual meeting the list may be further enlarged. 



The conversational meetings, which have occasionally been 

 well attended, have not been so at other times. I wish to 

 impress on members the great usefulness of these meetings, 

 where notes can be compared, and if doubts exist, books can 

 be referred to, and where mounting of objects can be prac- 

 tised, and section cutting, illumination of objects under the micro- 

 scope, in fact, all those things which cannot be so well 

 studied at a large meeting, can be well carried on at these bye 

 meetings. I therefore impress upon our members the im- 

 portance of attending, and hope that those who are well up 

 in any particular subject will cheerfully lend a helping hand 

 and make a point of attending and assisting those who require 

 it. Remember that it is by mutual confidence and mutual aid 

 that great things are done and great discoveries made. 



With regard to our Library we must look at it as our stock- 

 in-trade ; it is our own property, and we are always ready to 

 see that property increased ; the more our bookcases are filled 

 with good books of reference, and our cabinets with micro- 

 scopes, slides, and other objects and instruments, the more we 

 shall be able to work up any particular subject. I therefore 

 advise our members to give liberally, and to those who may not 

 be willing to part with their books or instruments during their 

 lives, I say there is no bar to their leaving all, or any of them, 

 to the Club after they have passed away, and though it will be no 

 loss to them, it will be a great gain to the Club. 



Our soiree this year has, as usual, been most successful, and 

 I thank all for the general interest and trouble they took to 

 make it so. I also more cordially thank those kindred societies 

 who with so much good will rendered us assistance, and hope 

 when it falls to our lot to assist other societies at their soirees, 

 we shall do it with as hearty a good will, and give them every 

 support in our power. 



Before concluding my address, I am sorry to have to refer 

 to our losses in deaths. We have thus lost Mr. C. W. Bonus, 

 one of our oldest members ; Dr. Foottit, well known to us all 



