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A communication has recently been received from the British 

 Association saying that this Society has been admitted as one of 

 its corresponding Societies. It is consequently entitled to send a 

 Delegate to the meetings of the Association, which Delegate 

 becomes a member of the General Committee. 



Notices of the more important papers published in our own 

 Report will therefore be able to find a place in the Annual Report 

 of the British Association ; and will thus be brought to the notice 

 " of other corresponding Societies and of members of the Associa- 

 tion, and of workers in science throughout the world." 



It is to be hoped that this may be an incentive to our 

 members and others to prepare papers which may be worthy of 

 such recognition 



At the Annual Corgress of the S. E. Union of Scientific 

 Societies, held at Tunbridge Wells on the 21st and 22nd of May, 

 this Society was represented by the President Mr. J. P. Slingsby 

 Roberts, Messrs D. E, Caush, E. T. Breed, and Edward Alloway 

 Pankhurst. 



One advantage that it is to be hoped may spriug from this 

 Union is the exchange of papers and lecturers between the 

 different Societies affiliated. 



In pursuance of this idea Mr. Pankhurst lectured before the 

 Eastbourne Natural History Society on the 28th ult. 



During the past year the Society has lost twelve members 

 by death and resignation and has acquired nine new ones. 



The record of the Excursions is as follows — 

 13th June, 1896, Cowfold. 



18th July, „ Leonardslee Park and Grrounds, by 

 kind permission of Sir E. G. Loder, 

 Bart. 

 12th May, 1897, Wivelsfield and Ditchling Common. 



