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’ The President's Address. 
Lapies anp GENTLEMEN, 
In coming before you to-night with the usual Presi- 
dential Address, I feel that I owe an apology to you all for my 
many shortcomings. When Mr. Moore communicated to me 
your wish that-I should allow myself to be put in nomination 
for the office of President,-I felt that the pressure of other work 
would be very heavy, and that I should be unable to devote as 
much time as I should have wished to the business of the 
Society. I feel that I should have utterly failed in my duties 
_ but for Mr. Moore, and also the Council, to whom I desire to 
tender my most grateful thanks. 
I propose, in my Address to you to-night, to give a short résumé 
_ of the work of the Society during the past year; and then, with 
your permission, to give you some short account of my own 
special subject, viz. the weather of the district during the past 
remarkably wet year; and also, with your permission, to include 
with this account some correspondence which I have had with 
the Astronomer Royal and the London County Council, which 
will give some idea of the great esteem in which our Society is 
held. This short account need not interfere with the Meteoro- 
logical Committee’s Report, which will in due course be sent in 
as usual, as soon as the returns are complete, but it will probably 
render the reading of it unnecessary. 
_ During the past year we have to regret the loss of two 
members by death,—one, Mr. John Berney; and the other, Mr. E. 
L. Shore. Mr. Berney was one of our original members, of 
whom eight now remain. 
— Our roll now numbers 201 members —189 adults, 12 juniors. 
Since last year 14 have resigned, 1 struck off, and 14 new mem- 
bers have been elected, viz. 12 adult and 2 junior. 
_ At the Monthly Meetings the following papers have been read :— 
_ April 21st, on “ Comets,” by Mr. L. N. G. Filon, M.D., D.Sc. 
May ist, “A Section of Clay with Flints, near Woldingham ”’; 
“The Plateau Gravel, Upper Norwood Hill; both by Mr. N. F. 
Robarts. The latter was supplemented by some notes by Mr. 
A. J. Hogg, which will appear in the ‘ Transactions’; also a short 
aper by Mr. H. D. Gower, on “ Flints found at Waddon Marsh.” 
On Sept. 15th the evening was, as usual, devoted to an 
exhibition of specimens collected during the holidays. 
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