REPORT. 
In presenting the Twentieth Annual Report, your Committee 
have the pleasure of recording the continued prosperity of the 
Society, which has increased in numbers during the past year, but 
regret the loss sustained by the death of Dr. Ormerod, F.R.S. 
The state of the finances continues to be satisfactory, there 
being a balance of £6 4s. 9d. in the hands of the Treasurer, after 
an expenditure of £15 19s. 11d, in the purchase of new Books 
_and Periodicals. 
The following Books have been presented to the Society during 
the year, viz.:—The Fauna of Devon (Part 8), by E. Parfitt, from 
the Author ; Notes on the Insect Fauna of Lundy Island, by E. 
Parfitt (from the Author); Annual Report and Journal of the 
Geologist’s Association (from the Society) ; Proceedings and Re- 
port of the Eastbourne Natural History Society (from the Society) ; 
Howto Work with the Microscope, by L. S. Beale (from Dr. Hallifax) ; 
on newly discovered Roman and Saxon Remains at Finkley, 
near Andover, by Dr. Stevens (from the Author); Ninth Annual 
Report of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club, 1871-2 (from 
the Society) ; Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club 
(from the Society); Eighth Annual Report of the Lewes 
and East Sussex Natural History Society (from the Society) ; 
Geological Formations above the Chalk at Brighton, by 
J. Howell, two copies (from the Author) ; Brighton Daily News 
‘Report of the Meetings at Brighton of the British Association, 
1872 (from Mr.G. D. Sawyer) ; Extracts from the Opening Address 
