REPORT. 



In presenting the ninth Annual Eeport, your Committee 

 have the pleasure of recording the continued prosperity 

 of the Society. 



The number of members has slightly increased 

 during the year ; a list of the present members is 

 appended to this Report. The state of the finances 

 continues to be satisfactory, there being a balance of 

 £1 2s. 2d. in the hands of the Treasurer, after expending 

 £38 18s. 4d. in new Books, as appears by the Treasurer's 

 account, which is annexed. 



The following books have been purchased during 

 the year :— Tennant's Ceylon, Forbes' Life, Carpenter's 

 Vegetable Physiology, Carpenter's Elements of Animal 

 Physiology, Knox's Ornithological Eambles ; Miller's 

 Testimony of the Eocks, Pickering's Eaces of Man, 

 Pritchard's Infusoria, Somerville's Physical Sciences, 

 Nature-Printed Seaweeds (4 vols.), Forbes' European 



