REPORT. 
In presenting the EiantrrentH AnnvaL Report, your Committee 
have the pleasure of recording the continued prosperity of the 
Society, which has considerably increased in numbers during the 
past year; but regret the loss sustained by the death of Mr. R. Peek, 
who took great interest in the prosperity of the Society. 
The state of the finances continues to be satisfactory; there 
being a balance of #12 Os. 1d. in the hands of the Treasurer, after 
an expenditure of £19 5s. 11d. in the purchase of New Books and 
Periodicals, Your Committee have reserved a larger balance, in 
view of the expense to be incurred in publishing a Catalogue. 
The following Books have been presented to the Society 
during the year, viz.: Animaux sans vertibres, by Lamark, 7 Vols. ; 
Conybear and Phillips’ Geology of England and Wales, Ist Part, 
1 Vol. ; Bulletins de L’ Académie Royal de Belgique, Tome 27 and 
28; Catullo, Tratto sopra la Constituzione Geognostico-fisica dei 
terreni alluviali o postdiluviani delle province Venete; Dis- 
quisizioni Paleontologiche intorno A. J. Corrallarii Fossili delle 
Rocce terziarie del distratto di Messina, di Guiseppe Sequenza, 
2 Parts in 1 Vol.; Histoire Naturelle de Lacépide, by Desmarest, 
imperfect, 1 Vol.; Tennant’s British Fossils ; in all, 14 Vols., pre- 
sented by Thos. Davidson, Esq. Reports of the Quekett Micro- 
scopical Club, from 1868—70, inclusive; Journal of the Quekett 
Microscopical Club; Seventh Annual Report of the Lewes and 
East Sussex Natural History Society; Third Report and Pro- 
_ ceedings of the Eastbourne Natural History Society ; Seventh Re- 
