next number of our Proceedings. Mr. Lee contributed seven 

 original papers to the Club, namely (1), " On Siliceous Anchoring 

 Sponges," October 19th, ia70 ; (2), "On a new locality for 

 Trocheta subvindis, a rare land-leech," November 16th, 1870; 

 (3), " The microscopy of a fishmonger's shop," May 15th, 1872 ; 

 (4), " Some notes of observations of animal life in the Brighton 

 Aquarium" and (5), "Development of Hiidra tuha," Yehvusuxj 

 19th, 1873; (6), "On some of the developments that have 

 taken place in the Brighton Aquarium, February 18th, 1874 ; 

 and (7), " The history and teaching of a copper-plate," October 

 17th, 1877. 



Finances, — On the general account the net income and the net 

 expenditure for the last two years compare thus : — i 



1887. 1888. 



£ s. d. & s. d. 



Net Income 138 14 6 149 13 6 



Net Expenditure 125 11 3 151 4 11 



+ 13 3 3 - 1 11 5 



There has therefore been a slight excess of expenditure over 

 income. 



Beyond the practically compulsory conversion of the 3 per 

 cent. Consols into 2i per cents., no change has been made in 

 the Special Fund. No expenditure has been incurred, and 

 the balance available for the purchase of apparatus is now 

 £38 16s. 2d. 



During the past year the progress of the Club has been mani- 

 fested in the activity displayed by some of the sections. This 

 has been pre-eminently so in the case of the Meteorological 

 Subsection, under the active supervision of its Honorary 

 Secretary, Mr. Bayard. The programme laid down twelve 

 'months ago has been closely followed, and the expectations then 

 held out have been fully realised. At the comparatively small 

 cost of a little over £20 the daily rainfall from 34 stations in the 

 Club district has been tabulated every month, examined and 

 corrected, and the results printed and issued to the observers 

 and all members of the Club interested in the question, before 

 the end of the month succeeding that to which the statistics 

 refer. The quality of the results is enhanced by the close 

 scrutiny to which they are subjected by Mr. Bayard, who 

 immediately directs the attention of observers to any apparent 

 discrepancy in their returns, and asks for an explanation, The 

 Royal Observatory at Greenwich and the Kew Observatory are 

 both represented, and the applications for co-operation have 



