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 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10th, 1896. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE TEAR ENDING JUNE 1 Oth, 1896. 



The Ordinary Monthly Meetings of the Society which have 

 been held during the past year have been on the wbole well 

 attended. 



Among those which have more particularly drawn large 

 audiences may be mentioned the Lecture given by Mr. Shrubsole 

 on " Curious Dwellers on our Shores," at the Athenaeum Hall ; 

 and that by Messrs. Bower and Clutterbuck, at the School (>f 

 Science and Art, on " Electrical Discharge " and on " The 

 Eontgen Rays." Your Council has under consideration the 

 advisability of making its programme more attractive by having 

 occasionally during the Session a lecture by some professional 

 lecturer, on a subject of scientific interest, which would, by the 

 popular manner in which it was given or by its illustrations or 

 demonstrations, appeal to larger audiences than are accustomed 

 to assemble in this room. 



It will be seen by the Report of the Photographic Section 

 how successful was the Exhibition of the Photographs held 

 under the auspices of the Society in the Picture Gallery in this 

 building. The thanks of the Society are due to the Corporation 

 of Brighton and to the Fine Arts Sub-Committe for so cordially 

 granting the Society the use of the Gallery. 



In an Appendix to the Re])ort of the Botanical Section, Mr. T. 

 Hilton gives a valuable list of rare Sussex Plants found, by him 

 and Mr. Farr, of Uckfield, during the past year. It is mainly 

 through the labours of these two gentlemen that the number of 

 Sus.'^ex Plants in the Society's herbarium now amounts 900. The 

 Council would wish to put on record its high appreciation of the 

 labours of Mr. Hilton in mounting these, and of his and Mr. Farr's 

 assiduity in collecting them, 



A Congress of " 'J'he Natural History and Scientific Societies 

 of the South-Eastern District of England " was commenced at 

 'J'unbridge "V\'ells by the Natural History Society of that town on 

 April 25rh. By a resolution of the Council Mr. Pankhurst 



