REPORT. 
In presenting the SrventrEntH Annvat Report, your Committee 
have the pleasure of recording the continued prosperity of the 
Society; but regret the loss it has sustained by the death of Mr. 
Eden and Mr. William Verrall: the former gentleman was one of 
the Vice-Presidents, and both took an active interest in the 
prosperity of the Society. 
The state of the finances continues to be satisfactory; there 
being a balance of £1 19s. in the hands of the Treasurer, after 
expending £16 19s. in the purchase of New Books and Periodicals, 
and in the publication of “‘ The Moss Flora of Sussex.” 
The following Books have been presented to the Society during 
the year, viz.: Scientific Opinion, presented by the Editor; Nature, 
presented by the Editor; a Pamphlet on the Decapod Crustacea 
that have been found on the Coast at Eastbourne, by F.C. 8. Roper, 
presented by the Author; a Pamphlet on Butterfly Scales, cha- 
racteristic of Sex, by T. W. Wonfor, presented by the Author; 
Roper’s Catalogue of Works on the Micrcscope (second copy), 
presented by the Author; a List of Macro Lepidoptera, oc- 
curring in the neighbourhood of Folkestone, by H. Guard 
Knaggs, presented by T. W. Wonfor, Esq.; a Pamphlet; The 
Earth’s Antiquity, by James Gray; Manifestations of Disease 
in Morbid Phenomena, by Duncan, and Outlines of Oryctology, 
by James Parkinson, presented by W. E. C. Nourse, Esq.; Lyell’s 
Geology, 3 vols., presented by Miss Barnard; a Pamphlet on 
Ice, by C. Ward, presented by the Author; Papers from the 
Eastbourne Natural History Society, presented by the Society. 
The following Books have been purchased during the year, viz. : 
The Anatomy and Physiology of the Blow Fly, by B. T. Lowne, 
1 vol.; the Paleontographical Society’s Volume for 1869; 
