REPORT. 



In presenting the Eighth Annual Report, your Committee 

 have the pleasure of recording the continued prosperity of 

 the Society. 



The number of members remains about the same as 



last year, and the state of the finances continues to be 



satisfactory, there being a balance of £13 I63. 9d. in the 



hands of the Treasurer, after expending £8 Os. 6d. in new 



books, as appears by the Treasurer's account, which is 

 annexed 



The following books have been purchased during 

 the year : — Gosse's Marine Zoology, Lindley's Vegetable 

 Kingdom, "Wood's Tourist's Flora, Equatorial Africa (by 

 Du Chaillu), The Dodo and its Kindred (by Strickland), 



