REPORT. 
_In presenting the Nineternta Annuat 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 deaths of Mr. 
LowpEtt (a Vice-President, and one of the founders of the 
Society) and Mr. Aturrez, an old Member, 
The state of the finances continues to be satisfactory: there 
being a balance of £19 11s. 2d. in the hands of the Treasurer, 
after an expenditure of £23 16s. 1d. in the purchase of New 
Books and Periodicals. 
The following Books have been presented to the Society 
during the year, viz.: Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells and 
¥ Neighbourhood (Dr. Deakin); The Climate of Uckfield, in the 
Weald of Sussex (C. Leeson Prince, Esq.); Cruise of the 
Norna—pamphlet (Captain Marshall Hall); Journals of the 
— Quekett Microscopical Club; Sixth Report of the Quekett 
_ Microscopical Club; Journal of the Linnean Society,—No. 53, 
Zoology ; Additions to the Library of the Linnzan Society 
| (Dt. Addison); Climate of Brighton—pamphlet (Mr. F. E. 
_ Sawyer); Transactions of the Maidstone and Mid-Kent Natural 
History and Philosophical Society (from the Society); the Fourth 
Annual Report of the Eastbourne Natural History Society (from 
