H E P R T 



Your Committee, iu presenting- their Third Annual 

 Eeport, record with pleasure the favourable con- 

 dition of this Society, which may now be said to 

 have passed through its infant state and become 

 one of the established Societies of the Town. As 

 will be seen by the balance sheet, the finances are 

 in a flourishing condition, there being a balance 

 in the hands of the Treasurer of £2 10s. 2d. 



A working Naturalist in the Town, named 

 Homings, having died, leaving his wife and family 

 in great distress, your Committee purchased his 

 collection of mosses, lichens, and hcpaticse, and 

 have since had thera' made complete and bound. 



In recording the donations, your Committee 

 have to report that Mr. HoUis has presented the 



