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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
1872-3. 
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SEPTEMBER 12TH. 
AN EVENING FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 
SPECIMENS. 
Mr. G. ScurT, the new President, on taking the Chair, made a short 
presidential address. He considered a great deal would be expected 
of the Society in the future, for the town having been visited by the 
British Association, and having, contrary to the predictions of those 
who said Brighton contained no scientific element, come well out of 
the ordeal, friendly and unfriendly eyes would watch the doings of the 
Society, and see whether it was helping to dissipate that erroneous 
idea. It had become favourably known to many at a distance, 
who visited the town, and some of whom, notably the Geolo- 
gists’ Association, intended visiting Brighton one day next summer in 
a body, and wished to be in intimate connection with them. 
They would soon have opened the new Library and Museum which 
had been so liberally erected by the Town, and he hoped it would 
stimulate all to increased energies in the pursuit of ‘science. Perhaps 
he ought to say a word about one of the immediate results of the visit, 
yiz., the opening of the tumulus in the Dyke-road. He had brought 
down some of the flakes and drawings, which he would hand round 
presently. He hoped the members would bear with him during his 
year of office. One thing he promised, to let the Society, through its 
Secretaries and Committee, manage itself. 
Mr. Wonror, alluding to the opening of the Black Burgh, 
‘suggested that some steps should be taken for opening more of the 
tumuli in the neighbourhood of Brighton, and to securing the contents 
for the Town Museum. ; 
Mr. Scort, who handed round flakes from the mound, and drawings 
- of the objects found in it, thought there was a possibility of the objects 
ie discovered finding their way into the Town Museum. 
