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certain restrictions, and by encouraging the exchange of slides 
among the Members. The Section to consist of all Members of 
the Society who signify their wish to the Secretaries to join the 
Section. The government to be under the present officers of the 
Society until the annual meeting, when the Committee should 
suggest rules for its future government. The meetings to be held 
on the fourth Thursday in each month, at eight o’clock in the 
evening; the Chair to be taken by the President or a member of 
the Committee; when, after the ordinary and special business of 
the evening, the meeting should resolve itself into a conversazione, 
at which slides, illustrative of the subject of meeting, should 
have precedence of other objects of interest and novelty. Before 
separating, the subject of the next meeting should be announced. 
This recommendation was adopted at a special meeting of the 
Society. The first meeting was held on May 26th, an abstract of 
the proceedings of which, and of the three following meetings, will 
be found embodied in the year’s proceedings of the Society. Your 
Committee recommend the continuance of the Microscopical 
Meetings under the management of the officers of the Society. 
The effect will be to make the meetings of the Society fortnightly 
instead of monthly,—the first in each month for ordinary, and the 
second for microscopic purposes. 
The thanks of the Society are due to the Brighton and Hove 
Dispensary and to the Medico-Chirurgical Society for the use of 
the room at the Dispensary in which the meetings of the Society 
are held, and to those gentlemen who have read papers and 
exhibited microscopes and specimens, and contributed to the 
Library and Cabinet. 
The Field Excursions, since the last Report, have been as 
follows :—October, 1869, Uckfield; May, 1870, Baleombe; June, 
1870, Findon (by invitation of H. Willett, Esq.) ; July, 1870, 
Black Rock, and a Dredging expedition ; August, 1870, Steyning ; 
September, 1870, Lewes, 
The Annual Excursion took place on the 30th of June, to 
