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than last year ; and the donations towards the Meteorological 

 Sub-Committee expenses have been £15 against £22 12s, 



Expenses. Printing and postages have been somewhat less, 

 M5 5s. Id., as compared with £53 5s. lOd. ; but we have now 

 an extra room for the Pliotographic Section, for which £9 rent 

 has been paid this year. The Soiree expenses, as per Balance- 

 sheet, amount to £38 Os. 7d. ; with a further payment to be 

 made for tables, £10 18s. 6d. This account was not rendered in 

 time to be included in the accounts. It will be remembered that 

 for the past two years we have been largely indebted to a few 

 members for the reduction in the cost of the Conversazione, 

 while this year it has been entirely borne by the Club. We 

 have also the salary of an Assistant Secretary in this year's 

 accounts. The balance on general account, as per Balance- 

 sheet, is therefore £59 10s. 8d. against £51 lis. 4d. a year ago. 



The expenses connected with the removal of Dr. Carpenter's 

 collections, and fitting up the same in the Club-room, fitting up 

 the dark room, lockers, apparatus, and new notice boards, have 

 been charged to the Special Fund Account. This now stands at 

 £4 lis. 4d. 



The Treasurer would like me to add that if members would 

 kindly pay their subscriptions as early in the year as possible, 

 considerable correspondence, postage, &c., would be saved, and 

 the business of the Club facilitated. 



The excursions during the summer months have formed as 

 usual an enjoyable feature of the proceedings of the Club, ladies 

 accompanying the party on several occasions. The whole day 

 excursions on Bank Holidays were well attended, the half-day 

 excursions and evening rambles less so. 



The first excursion of the summer season to Caterham, God- 

 stone, Tilburstow Hill, and Oxted, took place on Whit Monday, 

 under the leadership of Mr, Lovett, and was favoured with 

 brilliant weather, A party of about twenty members and friends 

 proceeded from Caterham to Gravelly Hill, on the summit of the 

 North Downs, Here in woods and thickets on the chalky soil 

 were found many botanical rarities, especially orchids, as the 

 fly-orchis [Ophrys muscifera), the butterfly orchis {Hahenaria 

 chlorantha), Gymnadenia conopsea, Cephalanthera (jrandiflora, and 

 Epipnctis latifolia ; also Daphne Laureola, Campanula Tracheliwn, 

 and Hippocrepis comosa. The Eoman snail, Helix pomatia, was 

 abundant here, and several species of butterflies. From the 

 summit of the hill a glorious view was obtained over the nearer 

 ranges to Leith Hill, the Weald, and the South Downs. Passing 

 along the crest of the hill, a nest of the tit-lark (Anthus pratensis) 

 was found containing four eggs, one being that of a cuckoo, dis- 

 tinguished from those of the tit-lark by being somewhat larger 



