REPORT. 



In presenting the Sixth Annual Eeport your Committee 

 have the satisfaction of recording the continued and 

 increasing prosperity of the Society. 



The number of members at the present time is 86, 

 being an increase of 15 on the previous year. 



The state of the finances is very satisfactory, there 

 being a balance of £7 13s. 9d. in the hands of the 

 Treasurer, after expending ^1 1 5s. Od. in new books, 

 as appears by the Treasurer's account. 



Two boxes of specimens from Ascension have been 

 presented to the Society by Mr. Tatham, a box of pre- 

 parations of Chincona by Dr. Kino, and a copy of his 

 pamphlet on the Pholas Dactylus by Mr. Eobertson. 

 The volumes of the Eay and Palceontographical Society 

 have been received and added to the Library, and the 

 following books have been purchased, viz. : — 



Yarxell's British Birds, 3 vols ; Kirby and Spence's 

 Entomology ; Selby's Forest Trees ; Hogg's Micros- 

 cope ; Drew's Practical Meteorology ; Wilson's Bry- 

 ologia Britannica; Stainton's Natural History of 

 Tineina,4vols; Stainton's Entomologist's Companion 

 to Tineina ; Ansted's Ancient World. 



