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now contains 205 Slides, has received donations from the fol- 
lowing gentlemen :— 
Mr. renee ss aT Mr. Hennab ...... eawaslies tok 
Mr. Curties........... Sees EMG Mr. Wonfor ......- Rave 
Captain Marshall Hall ... 1 Mr. W. H. Smith ........ 5 
Donations of Water-colour Drawings, Sketches, Photo- 
‘ graphs, and Microphotographs, have been made by Mr. Penley, 
the Rey. J. H. Cross, Mr. T, H. Hennah, Dr. Hallifax, and Mr. 
| O’Bryen Lomax, and of Lichens and Mosses, by Mr. G. Davies. 
Your Committee have much pleasure in reporting that the 
Monthly Microscopical Meetings have been decidedly successful, 
and have added very materially to the usefulness of the Society. 
The Conversazione given in the month of January proved so 
successful, that your Committee recommend that it be made 
annual. 
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, exhibited 
Microscopes and Specimens, and contributed to the Library, 
Album, and Cabinet. 
Your Committee hope the recent visit of the British Asso- 
ciation to Brighton may not only stimulate the Members to 
increased exertions, but that it may have a permanent effect on 
the pursuit of Science in the Town and County. 
The Field Excursions since the last Report have been as 
follows :—October, 1871, to Bramber. 1872: May, to Balcombe; 
June, to Isfield; July, to Findon (by invitation from Mr. H. 
