Proceedings. 25 
ANNUAL MEETING, 
held at Reigate, 16th of October, 1896. 
The Annual Report and Balance Sheet were read and 
adopted. 
ANNUAL Report. 
Only 9 members haverjoined the Club during the past year, 
whereas 20 have resigned. One member has died. Mr. W. H. 
Heaton has just been elected an honorary member as a mark of 
respect for his services to the Club and of gratitude for his 
handsome gift of stuffed birds. The number of members is 
now 76. 
A small volume of Proceedings has been issued for the years 
1893, 1894, and 1895. The Committee did not see its way to 
entail so heavy an expense as on former occasions, so the 
volume is more strictly confined to local records than some 
former volumes of Proceedings have been. It has been sent 
to a number of Scientific Societies, many of which send us 
their Proceedings in exchange. 
For the first time the Club has been able to send a delegate 
to the meetings of representatives of Scientific Societies held in 
connection with the British Association meeting at Liverpool. 
The attendances at the evening meetings varied from 10, on 
a soaking wet night at Reigate, to 100 at a lantern-lecture at 
Redhill. The average was about 45. It will be seen that 
3 evenings were devoted to Geology, 1 to Biology, 1 to Botany. 
At the other 2 meetings the speakers dealt with foreign travel, 
including some natural history observations. 
The following is a list of the papers or addresses :— 
1895. 
October 18. The Giant Trees of California, by Mr. N. E. 
Brown. 
November 15. Natural History Observations in the Coast 
Provinces of China, by Mr. Leonard J. Day. 
